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Essay #2-F: “Sammy is a sexist pig who suddenly sees the light”

In John Updike’s short story, “A & P,” the main character, Sammy, is a cashier at a small grocery store. He is seen by many to be a sexist pig, describing in detail how he sees the three girls that walk in to the store. Sammy is in fact a sexist pig by what he says about them. With evidence and quotes from the story, Sammy can be determined to be a sexist pig.

He describes the first girl he sees walking in the store as “a chunky kid, with a good tan and a sweet broad soft-looking can with those two crescents of white just under it…” (421). Although the comment was kept to himself, in mind it is a sexist comment. Though t


One other quote/thought that Sammy has while these girls (whom remain nameless throughout the story), is when the one he calls Queeny takes her money from “the hollow at the center of her nubbled pink top” (423). He begins to get excited as he uncreases the bill as “it just having come from between the two smoothest scoops of vanilla [he] had ever known there were” (424). Sammy seems to be more of a sexist pig, as the reader proceeds through the story.

he girl was in a bathing suit and there was no beach around, she probably wasn’t trying to get the attention of young guys. She was just there to “pick up a jar of herring snacks” (423). Describing the girl’s “can” (421), meanin

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Approximate Word count = 502
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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