The use of figurative language in A&P created a certain mood and atmosphere of Sammy's world. In the story Sammy gives names for everybody some of which were sheep, cash-register-watchers, bums, and a Sunday-school-superintendent. This in turn not only gave the reader an understanding of what the people he named were like but also gav

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