Modern A&P John Updike’s “A&P” is a fine example of an early 1960’s “rite of passage” or “initiation into adulthood” story. According to the introduction of adulthood theme, heroic irony, and erotic experience in this short story, Updike’s work moves forwardly in essential subjectivity for a modern day writing in today’s society. John Updike is the author of many artistic and creative novels such as “Rabbit, Run” (1960), which is the prequel to his most famous “Rabbit” series. Another few works of Updike was “The Centaur” (1963), which received the National Book Award a year later, and notably “Seek My Face” (2002). (Saldivar 215). Updike was born in Reading, Pennsylvania on March 18, 1932. This location in which he was
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He also became recognized on campus for being the contributor to the Harvard Lampoon where he was also the president, much like his high school career. (Saldivar 216). Updike completed Harvard University after four years with a degree in English. First Updike’s earliest motivation and ambition was to become a cartoonist for the “New Yorker”. In order for Updike to strive toward his latest goal was to continue strengthening his educational skills which led to his enrollment at “The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art”, at the University of Oxford. (Autumn 121). His dream was relatively close to becoming reality, especially after publishing his first story in “The New Yorker” in 1954, and in the year of 1955 he had earned a spot as a columnist for the “New Yorker”, in which he wrote for the column “Talk of the Town”. (Saldivar 216). Updike was very skillful at all types of writing at this point, publishing almost every literary genre, including poetry, short fiction, art criticism, drama(s), essays, and novels. (Updike 1325). All of which resulted the beginning of his successful and prolonged writing career. This magazine that he had written for was the first of its kind, according to the amount of readers who had read the short stories featured within it all across the United States. “The New Yorker” consistently grew gaining readers’ attention, which truly gave Updike a large amount of publicity for his editorials, poetry, stories, and criticism. (Saldivar 217). However, after some years of this magazine’s growing sensation, more and more magazines published short stories and gained in popularity as well. Updike continued to write novels and American letters which enhanced his fame and popularity in the traditional twentieth century era. A listing of some of his latest writings are “Terrorist” (2006), and “The Widows of Eastwick”
He also became recognized on campus for being the contributor to the Harvard Lampoon where he was also the president, much like his high school career. (Saldivar 216). Updike completed Harvard University after four years with a degree in English. First Updike’s earliest motivation and ambition was to become a cartoonist for the “New Yorker”. In order for Updike to strive toward his latest goal was to continue strengthening his educational skills which led to his enrollment at “The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art”, at the University of Oxford. (Autumn 121). His dream was relatively close to becoming reality, especially after publishing his first story in “The New Yorker” in 1954, and in the year of 1955 he had earned a spot as a columnist for the “New Yorker”, in which he wrote for the column “Talk of the Town”. (Saldivar 216). Updike was very skillful at all types of writing at this point, publishing almost every literary genre, including poetry, short fiction, art criticism, drama(s), essays, and novels. (Updike 1325). All of which resulted the beginning of his successful and prolonged writing career. This magazine that he had written for was the first of its kind, according to the amount of readers who had read the short stories featured within it all across the United States. “The New Yorker” consistently grew gaining readers’ attention, which truly gave Updike a large amount of publicity for his editorials, poetry, stories, and criticism. (Saldivar 217). However, after some years of this magazine’s growing sensation, more and more magazines published short stories and gained in popularity as well. Updike continued to write novels and American letters which enhanced his fame and popularity in the traditional twentieth century era. A listing of some of his latest writings are “Terrorist” (2006), and “The Widows of Eastwick”