Throughout the story “A&P” each of the characters in the story evolved in some way by the end of the story. The main character and narrator, Sammy the 19-year-old cashier at the A&P has shown that he still has more maturing to do. He views other characters such as Stokesie and Lengel as enemies to him for invalid reasons. He sees any form of adult figure as a person who is an enemy. Stokesie, the 22-year-old that is already married and has two kids wants to be the eventual manager of the A&P. Sammy appears to be jealous of Stokesie because he somewhat has his life together and has dreams an ambitions to do something with his future. While Lengel, the actual manager of the A&P is an uptight guy who does things by the book. Sammy sees him as
