John Updike -
“Sammy’s So-Called Life” In John Updike’s short story “A&P”, we meet a young man named Sammy. Sammy is the typical teenage boy. He is stuck in a mundane job at the grocery store with no future plans. He lives in an imaginary world, only dreaming about the things that he wants to do. But by the end of the story, he has learned an important lesson about life. One theme of this story is that we have to live with the consequences of what we do. At the beginning of the story, we find young Sammy behind the cash register at the A&P. He is ringing up an old lady when he sees three girls in the store wearing nothing but their bathing suits. In the line “I stood there with my hand on a box of HiHo crackers trying to remember if I rang it up or not.” (pg.14), we can tell that Sammy is much more interested in watching the young ladies than to take care of his customer. He also refers to the girl’s rear-ends as “cans”, making him sound like an immature young man. As soon as Sammy is done with his “witch” of a
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Approximate Word count = 739
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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