The qualities that the diction and dialogue bring out in Sammy are ultimately what indicate a transition beginning to take place in his life. Sammy is in his last year of being a teenager and displays extremely immature qualities, the worst of them all being his impulsivity. Sammy quits his job not in some heroic effort to right a social wrong or even because he dislikes his job, but because he wants to impress three strangers who will probably never think of the act again. Sammy quickly realizes that prioritizing females over a job was probably the wrong decision when he is outside of his former place of work “[feeling] how hard the world would be to [him] hereafter.” Once he has stepped out of A & P, he has not just stepped outside, but into another part of his life: adult hood. This transition for the painfully obviously unprepared Sammy is uncomfortable to watch unfold because the reader knows that he is doomed based off of his mindset and
But the end of the story, he refuses to be stuck in the same job for many years or possibly the rest of his life. One day while working at the store, Sammy notices three girls, who are wearing swim suits because the beach with even bear foot is close walk in store. When the girls reach the register the manager Lengel notices the girls. He walks over to them and argues with them for a moment and then girls leave with shame. Sammy didn’t understand why the manager had such a
The narrator is unable to live with this sense of regret and unanswered questions, filled with frustration. He decides to seek others help by asking them that whether he did the right thing, they told him that he had done the right thing of leaving the man alone at that moment but inside the man knew that he done wrong. The benevolent spirit gave him motivation to share this experience with others through this essay and apologize the young man. The narrator (hero) thinks that what if in place of the young man would be his own son so in order to avoid any problem in future he conveyed his message of helping others “ The thing I would want to someone to do, if they ever found my son crying in an elevator”. At this moment I can see the narrator resembling to Karma and this reminded me of the movie “Let alone” about Karma what you do in your life effects your future.
All he got out of it was a little self-confidence. In his time quitting your job may have been ok but in my time it’s not cool to do so. The choice he made to quit his job was not appropriate for a guy of his age. There is a lesson to be learned from this story. “ Think before you
I had my own dreams of transformation…”(8). By hanging out with bad friends, it influences Toby to be more like them. This is because to him, his friends are important to him and he does not want to risk losing them. The crowd he spends time with and the events he does with them take him farther from who he truly is deep inside. Toby’s position in feeling like a fraud, in having emptiness within himself, and finding himself shows how difficult his life can be.
Response Paper: A&P The short story, “A & P” by John Updike is a about a teenager named Sammy that works at a grocery store. In the story, three girls walk into the store in nothing but bathing suits and we follow Sammy’s reaction to the events that occur because of them. This story relates to my life because I also work at a grocery store. While I was reading this I felt like I could relate to many of the things that Sammy had to go through while he was working. The first thing that I related to from the story was the way that Sammy felt when he accidentally made a mistake with a customer’s order.
The short story “A&P” tells a story about a day the local grocery store near the beach. Sammy, the main character, is the cashier never seems to enjoy his job at A&P and after an incident that happens, he stands up to the manager for what he feels is right and quits his job on the spot. Now how does this all happen? It all goes back to the place and time of this story which is in the 1950’s near the beach. The manager Lengel does not seem to be too strict at first but has his ways I feel.
Nohn Digker 01/18/2011 English 1102 Assignment -1 The Consequences of Choice In the story A & P, John Updike uses Sammy’s immaturity to show the consequences of choices. Sammy a typical teenager shows an immature behavior like most teens. From the moment the group of girls catch his eyes; he loses his attention and could not remember even if he had rang up the Hiho crackers in his hand. He finds himself following the path of the girls with his eyes as they go about their business looking for the product they have come in to buy. Wearing a bathing suit in a grocery store is more like being naked in public.
He does not care what society thinks of him and in some situations he does not even care about the laws and rules of life. People around me are to scare to over do it and care too much about the consequences. But many friends of mine have the idea of not caring and doing whatever they please but having limits to it. I believe that when we are young we enjoy life much more because we like adventures and trying new things just like Alexander. 10.
Although constant evil swirls around Bruno, he is able to hang on to his innocence, which shields him from the knowledge of the situation he is in, but ultimately leads to his and Shmuel’s downfall. Bruno’s innocence becomes quite apparent throughout the course of the novel. He portrays this childish innocence through his lack of understanding on many of the changes that have been happening in his life. Bruno portrays this quite clearly by asking his father : "Did you do something bad in work? I know that everyone says you're an important man and that the Fury has big things in mind for you, but he'd hardly send you to a place like this if you hadn't done something that he wanted to punish you for."