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Summary. Analysis. Three girls in bathing suits walk into the local A&P grocery store as Sammy, the nineteen-year-old narrator, rings up the groceries for a woman in her fifties he describes as " a witch about fifty with rouge on her cheekbones and no eyebrows." Sammy is distracted by the sight of them – first seeing a "chunky" girl wearing a ...
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Three girls walk into the A&P in their bathing suits, as...
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The girls in their bathing suits flaunt their wealth, as...
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In the Fifties, this prosperity gave way, for the first time, to a distinct youth culture of rebellion and disregard for authority, documented in films (Rebel Without a Cause, 1955) and books (The Catcher in the Rye, 1951) that likely influenced Updike's "A&P," a story about conformity and questioning authority. Despite the prosperity of the postwar era, however, a significant minority of ...
Recommended Reading. John Updike Society board members name their top five Updike books. Peter J. Bailey. Piskor Professor of English Emeritus, St. Lawrence University (New York) Author, Rabbit (Un)Redeemed: The Drama of Belief in John Updike’s Fiction; Reading Stanley Elkin; and The Reluctant Film Art of Woody Allen. Rabbit at Rest (1990).
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The story is narrated by Sammy, a checkout clerk, in the first person. Hisvoice is casual and personal. His informal speech emphasizes his uniquecharacter and tendency to challenge authority. Slang terms, such as describinga dollar bill that had “just come from between the two smoothest scoops ofvanilla I had ever known,” paint him as a typical tee...
“A&P” is filled with symbolism. The HiHo crackers Sammy rings up serveas an exclamation. When he rings them up a second time, it's as if he's saying“Heigh-ho! Something unusual is happening!” and an older woman scolds him forit. The other shoppers are depicted as “sheep” mindlessly wandering up and downthe aisles, eventually filing into the chutes ...
An epiphany is a moment of sudden insight triggered by a seemingly ordinaryevent. For Sammy, what starts as a routine day leads to a profound realization:“I felt how hard the world was going to be to me hereafter.” This concludingstatement in “A&P” is the result of witnessing a minor incident where threegirls, dressed inappropriately, are scolded f...
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Dec 6, 2013 · Sammy, the nineteen-year-old check-out boy at an A & P grocery store, who happens to be our narrator. Sammy has grown up, presumably comfortable, in the 1940s and 1950s under the cultural norms of a conventional sea-side town above Boston. At nineteen, he is experiencing his first tastes of independence and independent thinking.
