Linguistic Analyze of the Text “a and P” by John Updike.

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Linguistic analyze of the text “A and P” by John Updike. Kuular Cheinesh 5/2. I would like to retell you the text “A and P” written by John Updike. John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. Updike has been a consistently popular and highly prolific author since 1959, when he published his collection of short fiction. The story is told from the first person point of view of Sammy. From the opening line - "In walks these three girls in nothing but bathing suits". The events take place in the supermarket “A and P”. Updike establishes Sammy's distinctively colloquial voice. Most of the story is told in the present tense, as if Sammy is talking. Sammy's cynical observations about his customers (whom he often calls "sheep") can be humorous, such as when he comments that if one particular customer had been "born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem." And it's an endearing detail when he describes folding his apron and dropping the bow tie on it, and then adds, "The bow tie is theirs, if you've ever wondered." The voice that Updike creates for Sammy is both deliberately casual and poetically descriptive, alternating between common slang and sharp wit. Sammy is clearly intelligent, although still uneducated at nineteen, and capable of creating striking images, such as calling a girl’s hair “oaky” and describing the sunlight as “skating around” the parking lot. Updike keeps Sammy’s language colloquial. The effect of Updike’s technique in handling the first-person narration in “A&P” is to ensure that the reader will not mistake Sammy’s voice for Updike’s. That is, Sammy is not meant to function as a stand-in for Updike or as a spokesman for the “authorial” point of view. Sammy is a classic example of an “unreliable” narrator—that is, a

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