John Updike’s brief story “A&P” focuses on the choices made by a 19-year-old grocery clerk who is only identified by his first name, Sammy. The story is told in first person point-of-view so that the reader can see everything from Sammy’s viewpoint. There are two other characters in the story who are named Queenie and Lengel, this is how Sammy is brought to display. In Sammy’s perspective, we focus on his emotions, thoughts, and actions. What we are focusing on is whether Sammy is a static character or a dynamic character. I believe that Sammy is a dynamic character in this short story. A dynamic character is a literary or dramatic character that undergoes an important inner change, as a change in personality or attitude. In the short story Sammy who is a typical teenage
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When he is telling the part of how he quit he says, “Now here comes the sad part of the story, at least my family says it’s sad, but I don’t think it’s so sad myself.” In this situation, we are looking at Sammy still as that nineteen year old who has a whole life ahead of himself. Now Sammy is upset and mad of what he did. Sammy, the most dynamic person in the story, is sorted out in a couple of various ways. His name, itself, hints at his personality. The name, “Sammy”, shows that he is a younger boy; in addition to that, if Sammy were older they would have called him a name as Samuel. We are looking at Sammy’s feelings and attitude now and we see how Sammy is a dynamic character. Sammy’s point of view changes a lot from the beginning of the short story, to the end. Sammy who was a young adult was practically scared to speak his mind and to stand up for himself. Sammy now changes his mindset towards everything making him a dynamic character; it shows how his feelings were changing throughout the story and how Sammy ended up standing up for the girls that came into A&P. At the end of the short story, when Sammy quits his job, he dramatically takes off his apron, "shrugging it off" his
When he is telling the part of how he quit he says, “Now here comes the sad part of the story, at least my family says it’s sad, but I don’t think it’s so sad myself.” In this situation, we are looking at Sammy still as that nineteen year old who has a whole life ahead of himself. Now Sammy is upset and mad of what he did. Sammy, the most dynamic person in the story, is sorted out in a couple of various ways. His name, itself, hints at his personality. The name, “Sammy”, shows that he is a younger boy; in addition to that, if Sammy were older they would have called him a name as Samuel. We are looking at Sammy’s feelings and attitude now and we see how Sammy is a dynamic character. Sammy’s point of view changes a lot from the beginning of the short story, to the end. Sammy who was a young adult was practically scared to speak his mind and to stand up for himself. Sammy now changes his mindset towards everything making him a dynamic character; it shows how his feelings were changing throughout the story and how Sammy ended up standing up for the girls that came into A&P. At the end of the short story, when Sammy quits his job, he dramatically takes off his apron, "shrugging it off" his