The encounter of Sammy, the main character in John Updike's "A & P" with a trio of swimsuit clad girls in the grocery store where he works covers many of the themes central to adolescence, including accepting the consequences of one's choices. When Sammy quits in protest of how the girls are treated by the store's manager, he knows that from now on, the world will be a more difficult place. Although it may seem like an immature reaction, Sammy's defiance of Lengel in support of the girls shows that Sammy has indeed matured, proven by the fact that he supports his principals and does not accept what conventional society dictates
Sammy is a good natured, average 19-year-old boy who works at the local grocery store, the A & P He is not unusually bored with his tedious job because he manages to find amusement by making by exchanging disrespectful jokes with Stokesie, his fellow co-worker, making sarcastic observations of customers, and by looking at girls. When the three girls in......
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