Who Is The Protagonist In The Short Story A & P

The story “A & P,” by John Updike is narrated by a young cashier Sammy at the A & P supermarket. The focus of the story is the girls in bathing suits that come into the supermarket to shop. The girls catch Sammy’s attention and his eyes follow them around the store. Sammy eventually rings the girls order up. As Sammy is checking the girls out the manager approaches the girls and warns them about wearing only bathing suits to the store. Sammy then makes a decision to quit, hoping the girls will hear him. The girls did not hear Sammy but he still sits because he wanted to stand up for what he believes in. Sammy comes of age in this story: he goes from being a normal judgmental immature teenager to a young man that takes a stand for what he believes in and has to grow up and learn what adulthood is going to be like to him. Sammy is a like other typical teenager working at a supermarket. Sammy works as a cashier at the A & P supermarket. Sammy begins his journey while standing at his cash register on a summer afternoon watching people come in and out of the supermarket. In walks three girls that …show more content…
Sammy is a typical teenager working in a supermarket and does not like his job. He shows immaturity though man different thought that he expresses throughout the story. Sammy shows that he takes risks in his life because he quits his job even though he knows that he has a responsibility to fulfill with his money. His gesture was seen as a gesture of affirmation and an empty gesture. The story is an initiation story because Sammy quits his job and has to enter into adulthood now because he has to face the world and what the world is going to be to him. Sammy’s immaturity is what helps him make the decision to quit his job, and his gesture was seen to make no impact on anyone but