There is even a scene where she strips down to her lingerie at work, where they were all women, in front of her mom. Her mom tells her to put her clothes on because of how she looks “Look at you, you look awful!” (Carmen, RWHC) Another part of the main myth, to be a certain way, was when her mom tells Ana the things a man likes. She tells her “A man wants a virgin” (Carmen, RWHC), and when Ana loses her virginity, she suspects of it and confronts her. She tells her that she was a slut “You’re not only fat, now you’re a puta.” (Carmen, RWHC) and then asks why she doesn’t value herself. Carmen seems like there are certain ways she believes a woman should be like.
This leads to Sammy defending the girls, and ultimately quitting his job, only to have his chivalric deed go unnoticed. Most critics of the story make Sammy out to be a hero, and he certainly seems like one in the situation, but was he really? Was Sammy a hero, or an opportunist? Throughout the story, Sammy hints at a dislike for his job and generally shows no respect for the customers. He refers to one customer as “a witch about fifty with rose on her cheekbones” (Updike, par.
The students disappoint me in their change of behavior throughout the novel. For example, Leo asking her to be normal, I didn’t like that. He should have let her be who she wanted to be and if he didn’t like that then he shouldn’t have been with her in the first place. The student body as a whole in Mica High School is very bipolar when it comes to Stargirl. First, everybody liked her then, they hated her and then, they liked her again.
Why, exactly, does Sammy quit his job? The reason why Sammy quits his job is because he had a certain thing for those girls, hoping that maybe he’ll impress them if they were to see him tell Lengel off. Not just that, but also he totally felt that Lengel went too overboard and didn’t like how he embarrassed them due to the clothes they were wearing. So with all those reasons, he quit his job. 7.
After all, “they couldn’t help it” (79). Ready to check out, the girls unfortunately catch the eye of Sammy’s manager, Lengel, who also “teaches Sunday school” (80). When confronting the girls, Lengel states more than once that “this isn’t the beach” (80) and that the are to “come in here with your shoulders covered” (81) in their future visits to A&P. After seeing his manager publicly humiliate the girls and ringing up their purchase, Sammy hopes to become “their unsuspected hero” (81) by quitting his job. Although Lengel gives him the opportunity to change his mind, Sammy folds his apron and leaves it on the counter with the bow tie on top.
You can tell in the beginning of the story when the line “In walks three girls in nothing but bathing suits”. (Updike) He observes every little thing about these three girls from their tan lines to their bathing suits. After the girls walk in he is checking out one of the regular “cash-register-watchers” and he is so focused on the girls that he rings an item up twice and she yells at him. (Updike) From when the girls walk in till they come up to check out with one item Sammy is constantly looking and thinking about Queenie. Unlike his manager Lengel, he finds the girls a distraction from his everyday job where Lengel finds them arrogant for walking in to his grocery store with no shoes and only their bathing suites.
Sammy shows that he is in a transition period when he speaks looking towards the future. Sammy looks down upon his coworker because he still works at the A&P at an older age; Sammy wants to have a better life with a better job. The protagonist in Battle Royal is literally in a transition state because he is going from high school to college. In “A&P” Sammy quits his job because he felt that his boss was rude to a group of girls who came in with their bathing suits on. A main factor in Sammy quitting was the approval of the girls, but after he quit he stated, “I looked around for my girls, but they’re gone of course”(554).
At my tanning salon I work with a lot of females, and in the summer time it gets hot! My owner said the employees could not wear shorts because they were too short. Unintentionally this made the girls think they were dressing inappropriately and I didn’t like that. I explained to my boss that working here in the summer time gets extremely hot and the employees should be able to wear shorts down to a certain length. The only difference between my ending and Sammy’s ending was that my employees were happy I stuck up for them; Sammy’s girls did not seem to
One learning experience of life is explored in this short story called, “A&P”. In his short story “A&P”, John Updike explores how the main character immaturity and irresponsibility lead him to learn the reality of life. Sammy, the main character, without thinking quits his job and got the idea that he’s doing this for a good reason specifically to get attention from the girls. He defended them by quitting because his manager said that the girls can’t be in bathing suits in the store that he’s working in. Then after he quit he realized that he made a mistake after the girls didn’t acknowledge him defending them.
She is first to criticize her father’s decision to discharge her from his works stating ‘I think it was a mean thing to do. Perhaps it spoilt everything for her’ and realises ‘these girls aren’t cheap labour-they’re people’. The audience discover that Sheila ‘used the power as a daughter of a good customer and also of a man well known in the town to punish the girl’ by getting her sacked from her job after ‘having caught sight of this girl smiling at Miss Francis’ and admits ‘If she’d been some miserable plain creature, I don’t suppose I’d have done it. But she was pretty and looked as if she could take care of herself’. Although Sheila’s thoughts don’t immediately change, she comes to realise the consequences of her actions and accepts some blame unlike her