Sarcastically and dramatically, John Updike contrasts the protagonist’s veneration of three women in swimsuits at a supermarket on a hot summer day with the crowd’s fear of the women’s deviation from accepted conduct for females.
Although taken aback by near-nudity, the narrator scrutinizes the public’s judgment of the girls. Dramatizing his descriptions of the three girls, he says that the girls were wearing “nothing but bathing suits,” and “didn’t even have clothes on.” By including “didn’t even,” the narrator highlights the crowd’s bewilderment that the women are wearing bathing suits in public. Imitating rhetoric used by angry conservatives, the author conveys that women are held to high standards to what they wear in public. The women …show more content…
By analogizing a typical woman at a grocery store to “houseslave,” Updike renounces current tradition as restrictive for and by …show more content…
By beginning the sentence with “in walks,” Updike imitates the way that plays start scenes. Although the narrator presents the women using a uniquely placed prepositional phrase, he directly after reveals his own atomity in the scene through his lack of varying sentence structure to describe himself. He says, “I’m in the third check-out slot.” While the main actresses’ have grand entrances, extras, like Sammy, exist in the background. Sammy describes that the girls “walk against the usual traffic” in the aisles of the common “sheep.” Idealizing the girls’ rebellion against “usual traffic,” he refers to those who adhere to the aisle traffic as “sheep.” Moreover, Sammy’s lampooning and criticism of his boss further reveals his repudiation of commonly accepted protocol. Sammy sarcastically attacks the beliefs of authority. Imitating his boss, Sammy says “Policy is what the kingpins want. What the others want is juvenile delinquency.” By referring to the “head lifeguard” at a grocery store as a “kingpin,” Sammy curtly derides the believes of his boss. mocking the boss’s belief that these bare girls are juvenile delinquents.
Although taken aback by near-nudity, the narrator scrutinizes the public’s judgment of the girls. Dramatizing his descriptions of the three girls, he says that the girls were wearing “nothing but bathing suits,” and “didn’t even have clothes on.” By including “didn’t even,” the narrator highlights the crowd’s bewilderment that the women are wearing bathing suits in public. Imitating rhetoric used by angry conservatives, the author conveys that women are held to high standards to what they wear in public. The women …show more content…
By analogizing a typical woman at a grocery store to “houseslave,” Updike renounces current tradition as restrictive for and by …show more content…
By beginning the sentence with “in walks,” Updike imitates the way that plays start scenes. Although the narrator presents the women using a uniquely placed prepositional phrase, he directly after reveals his own atomity in the scene through his lack of varying sentence structure to describe himself. He says, “I’m in the third check-out slot.” While the main actresses’ have grand entrances, extras, like Sammy, exist in the background. Sammy describes that the girls “walk against the usual traffic” in the aisles of the common “sheep.” Idealizing the girls’ rebellion against “usual traffic,” he refers to those who adhere to the aisle traffic as “sheep.” Moreover, Sammy’s lampooning and criticism of his boss further reveals his repudiation of commonly accepted protocol. Sammy sarcastically attacks the beliefs of authority. Imitating his boss, Sammy says “Policy is what the kingpins want. What the others want is juvenile delinquency.” By referring to the “head lifeguard” at a grocery store as a “kingpin,” Sammy curtly derides the believes of his boss. mocking the boss’s belief that these bare girls are juvenile delinquents.