Sammy is neither. In Queenie he sees courage – an edge – he has never displayed. She has a willingness to challenge authority, to swim upstream. “The girls were walking against the usual traffic” (paragraph 5). He has always done what his parents expected, careful to never disappoint. Forever the conformist. The question is whether the hasty decision to quit his job will represent a life-changing crossroads and allow him the freedom for courageous self- discovery, or if the discomfort this decision creates proves too difficult and he reverts back to an even more conforming “sheep” in the herd (paragraph
