Character Analysis In John Updike's A & P

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John Updike’s short story “A & P” is the first-person narrator’s account of a life-changing experience that initiated the transition from the main character Sammy’s adolescence into adulthood. However, this first-step towards maturity and adulthood ultimately occurs at the conclusion of the story after the character development that Sammy undergoes throughout the story. Such character development, from the immature Sammy that is bored with his cashier job that Updike introduces to the readers at the opening of the story to the Sammy at the end of the story that takes an impulsive stand for himself and the girls, results from the constant inquiries of the narrator concerning the events transpiring around him in the town’s A & P store. Sammy’s awareness leads him to the realization that he must fight for a place in society, standing up for his beliefs and taking the initiative to move on from his job at the A & P to the better options that life has to offer, and this is the moment that brings the character to the start of his transition into adulthood. Therefore, in the short story “A & P,” Updike presents the readers with

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A major theme in A&P is personal freedom. Throughout the story Updike uses metaphor for all elements in the story to implies the theme. At the beginning of the story, Sammy uses sarcastic tone to describe the customers as “sheep” and “houseslaves” which implies he is different from them in mindset. The way how Sammy talks about others shows his intellectual mind. He is not same as Stokesie who wants to be a manager one day.

1. Based on the dialogue Sammy uses, one can suspect he does not take himself too seriously. He speaks from a first person point of view which portrays him as a quiet observer. Sammy also seems to be slightly shallow because when he is referring to the girls in bathings suits inside the store he notes, the girl that initially caught his attention was the “chunky” girl in plaid. In addition to his shallowness, Sammy uses harsh words such as “the fat one with the tan sort of fumbled the cookies.”

Coming of age signifies a change from childhood to adulthood. Two stories that are centered around “coming of age” are A&P and Araby. A&P is about a boy named Sammy who stands up for three girls who were being affronted about what they were wearing inside the grocery store. The conflict of the story and the coming of age moment revolves around what Sammy focused on when he saw them; until, he resolves to stand up for them. Araby on the other hand focuses on an unnamed narrator who is enamored with Magellan's sister and decides to go to Araby, a Dublin Bazaar, in order to get something for her.