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Famous Quotes Explained. 1. You never know for sure how girls’ minds work (do you really think it’s a mind in there or just a little buzz like a bee in a glass jar?). Sammy speculates on the mental processes of girls early in the story, at the height of his confidence. Condescending and arrogant, he assumes that if he cannot understand the ...
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Full Plot Summary. Three teenage girls, wearing only their...
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One of the things Sammy comes to understand during the...
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Updike tries to capture the sense of plenitude in a...
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The bathing suits that the girls wear into the A&P are an...
- John Updike and “A&P” Background
John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932....
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The manager of the A&P. Lengel is a by-the-books manager, as...
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Sammy, the narrator of “A&P,” is an opinionated, sarcastic,...
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Page Number and Citation: 189. Cite this Quote. Explanation and Analysis: Unlock with LitCharts A +. The sheep pushing their carts down the aisle—the girls were walking against the usual traffic (not that we have one-way signs or anything)—were pretty hilarious. Related Characters: Sammy (speaker), Queenie.
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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Full Plot Summary. Three teenage girls, wearing only their bathing suits, walk into an A&P grocery store in a small New England town. Sammy, a young man working the checkout line, watches them closely. He appraises their looks and notes even minute details about the way they carry themselves. He also speculates about their personalities and ...
by John Updike. A&P and Other Stories Quotes and Analysis. “He hoped she wouldn’t get too mad, because when she was mad he wondered if he should have married her, and doubting that made him feel crowded. It was bad enough, his mother was always crowding him.”. Here, Ace ponders how his wife will react when she finds out that he been fired ...
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Summary: “A&P”. “A&P” is one of John Updike’s most well-known and celebrated short stories, first published in The New Yorker on July 22, 1961, and later appearing in the author’s short story collection Pigeon Feathers. A Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Updike populates his realist fiction with small-town, middle-class Americans.
