An Anilitical View ofJohn Updike's Short Story "A & P"

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The main character in John Updike's "A & P" is Sammy, a clerk at a grocery store. The grocery store is set in the suburbs about five miles from the beach. Throughout the story there are several different styles used. I will explain to you some styles that were used in John Updike's story "A & P". The three that I will talk about are informal or low diction, concrete words, and connotation.

Informal or low diction is the type of dialog used in this story. For example, the narrator's first sentence illustrates informal, low diction by saying "in walks these three girls in nothing but bathing suits." It is also used in the conversation



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Approximate Word count = 435
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

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