Dispute Between Lengel And Sammy's Struggle

Sammy notices how all of the customers also act like sheep, which gets on his nerves.The next paragraph shifts to the next character, Sammy's co-worker, Stokesie. Stokesie is twenty-two, married, and has two children. Even though Stokesie plays a small part in the story, I believe that Updike included this character for a reason. This story isn't only based on calling people "sheep", but also has to do with "change." Change plays an important part in our life. We were all once little kids, small and naive. As a kid, we didn't know any better but to do exactly what we were told. We become prone to following "orders" without knowing whether they are good or bad. Gradually, we become knowledgeable about the difference between "right and wrong." Through experience, we develop into a better person. With knowledge and experience, we learn to excel. However, some people are still stuck in the past because they haven't learned anything. Sammy knows what he wants to do and be. He doesn't want to work at A & P for the rest of his life. Sammy isn't the type of person who would simply follow, he has his own ideas and believes in what he stands up for. Sammy doesn't seem like the guy who would praise Stokesie, and Sammy didn't mention anything positive or negative about Stokesie. Since Stokesie is young

To begin with, Sammy shows a rude attitude through the story. He indicates little regard for other people’s age or knowledge. To illustrate, Sammy asserts the old aged customer, who reprimands Sammy for scanning her item two times while he is gawking at the girls, is “a witch about fifty … [who] would have burned her over in Salem” (Updike 320). Sammy’s despise toward this old lady—in fact shoppers—is perceptible. Also, when Sammy quits A&P, he talks discourteously to his manager Lengel. The readers soom comes to discover that Lengel is a friend of Sammy’s parents. Lengel attempts persude Sammy from making his rash decision, pointing out that he does not want to do to this to his

When I was a child, I used to believe that the only thing I knew was what my parents told me, and that they couldn’t be wrong. However growing up I found out that not everything was true and that what they were doing was protecting me from harmful things in the world. However the older I get the more I realize that there are many things in the world that I haven’t seen yet. The same goes with Sammy from the short story A&P, when Sammy wants to know more about what's happening in the world.

Additionally, Sammy spoke of his friend and coworker Stokesie, who was only three years older than him, as if he was just wasting away because he was already married with two kids. He even assumes that Stokesie will conform to working there for the rest of his life and become manager several decades later, in 1990. English professor at Hawaii State University, Catherine Sustana, wrote a literary analysis that explains Sammy’s reaction to Queenie as, “Sammy obviously finds the girls physically alluring, but he's also attracted by their rebellion. He doesn't want to be like the "sheep" he makes such fun of, the customers who are befuddled when the girls enter the store” (Sustana). Later, Sammy decides to stick up for the girls after his boss, Lengel, comes down a little hard on them for making a scene at the store. Sammy ends up quitting his job on the spot for two reasons; he wanted to make a heroic gesture in favor of the girls and he did not want to be like the sheep. Even though he made such a huge leap to not be a conformist and follow the sheep, he seems to have some amount of understanding because he expresses that he is apologetic to his family and that this would end up making his life harder.

Act Two Then the conflict is right after that, when Lengel notices the three girls standing there to checkout Lengel’s treatment to the girls created some conflict with Sammy: protagonist; however Lengel’s heart was in the right place. Looking out for the town, both males and females, before hormones rage and caused someone to act on a wrong impulse and got someone hurt. Whatever the case may be, Lengel has morals obviously, playing the role of the antagonist and creating obstacles. The rising action I feel like Sammy was more interested in examining and wanting to learn more about Queenie than work, because he couldn’t stay focused. The crisis of act two is when Lengel asks “Sammy, have you rung up

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What transpires next for Sammy is he will peregrinate home to his parents with lamentable news about his job. His parents will be disappointed in him because he made a rash decision without understanding the consequences. Sammy's manager, Lengel, verbally expressed that he did not desire to do this to his mom and dad. Sammy probably utilized this mazuma from working to avail his parents. Now he's going to feel this for the rest of his life; because after having a conversation with his parents, Sammy will go back to the shop and ask for his job back and Lengel will reluct to rehire him. From this point on, Sammy will become homeless because he couldn't contribute to the bills since he bailed on his