A Readers Insight on Sammy
Many times in a person's life one sets out to be something yet turn out to be something else just like John Updike. John Updike was set on becoming a cartoonist yet life took a turn for him and he instead found himself writing stories. One of these stories is A&P, it is set in the 1950's and show some of the views of the people during that era. The setting is in a store that not far yet not truly near the beach. Working in the A&P is a young man in his nineteens named Sammy. Sammy works the cash register and tells the story of three young girls that walk through the store. Sammy character shows that he is a man, liberal and recklessly brave.
In the first place as soon as the three young girls walk in Sammy notices …show more content…
To put this in another way Sammy disagrees with many of the things the minor characters in the story believe and tends to in representing the characters in such a way that the reader can interpret how he views that certain characters. For instance, Sammy describes an old lady as such "she's one of these cash-register-watchers, a witch about fifty with rouge on her cheekbones and no eyebrows and I know it made her day to trip me up."(Updike 160). Sammy's description of the old lady could be more understood later on because it's the beginning yet he views the old lady in such a manner that the reader might regard as a disliking to the old ways. To further emphasize Sammy description of his manager is stated as such "Lengel's pretty dreary, teaches Sunday school and the rest" (updike163). Lengel description is sweet and simple, Sammy dislikes him and to further state his view because he does not specify the rest. When lengel confronts the girls Sammy find that his managers policy is only what he wants and tries to stand up for the girl in such a way that he quits. Sammy is a symbolic character that he is what most would image when people say a liberal. Sammy is young and sees down on laws and the moral views of other people around. However, he is hesitant because he quietly said he quit. This in return also makes the reader believe that Sammy …show more content…
The world does not stop for anyone and the way of people change like the season of the weather. Many time the youth is more willing to conform to change like a protagonist willing to go against the anti-hero that is old views. Henceforth Sammy's characterization is on point to show him as a symbolic representation of the youth in general that are willing to change. Sammy is indefinitely a young man that rebels the views of the past with liberal views and foolish bravery that might cause hardships for him later in
Many times in a person's life one sets out to be something yet turn out to be something else just like John Updike. John Updike was set on becoming a cartoonist yet life took a turn for him and he instead found himself writing stories. One of these stories is A&P, it is set in the 1950's and show some of the views of the people during that era. The setting is in a store that not far yet not truly near the beach. Working in the A&P is a young man in his nineteens named Sammy. Sammy works the cash register and tells the story of three young girls that walk through the store. Sammy character shows that he is a man, liberal and recklessly brave.
In the first place as soon as the three young girls walk in Sammy notices …show more content…
To put this in another way Sammy disagrees with many of the things the minor characters in the story believe and tends to in representing the characters in such a way that the reader can interpret how he views that certain characters. For instance, Sammy describes an old lady as such "she's one of these cash-register-watchers, a witch about fifty with rouge on her cheekbones and no eyebrows and I know it made her day to trip me up."(Updike 160). Sammy's description of the old lady could be more understood later on because it's the beginning yet he views the old lady in such a manner that the reader might regard as a disliking to the old ways. To further emphasize Sammy description of his manager is stated as such "Lengel's pretty dreary, teaches Sunday school and the rest" (updike163). Lengel description is sweet and simple, Sammy dislikes him and to further state his view because he does not specify the rest. When lengel confronts the girls Sammy find that his managers policy is only what he wants and tries to stand up for the girl in such a way that he quits. Sammy is a symbolic character that he is what most would image when people say a liberal. Sammy is young and sees down on laws and the moral views of other people around. However, he is hesitant because he quietly said he quit. This in return also makes the reader believe that Sammy …show more content…
The world does not stop for anyone and the way of people change like the season of the weather. Many time the youth is more willing to conform to change like a protagonist willing to go against the anti-hero that is old views. Henceforth Sammy's characterization is on point to show him as a symbolic representation of the youth in general that are willing to change. Sammy is indefinitely a young man that rebels the views of the past with liberal views and foolish bravery that might cause hardships for him later in