John Updike’s “A&P” and Sherman Alexie’s “ The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight In Heaven” seem notably similar. In Updike's story, a cashier in a store named “ A&P”, Sammy, notices three girls who walk into the store in bathing suits. After a dispute between one of the three girls, Queenie, and the store’s manager, Sammy rebels against the manager and mainstream culture by standing up for the girls and quitting his job. In Alexie’s story, similarly, an Indian from a reservation in Spokane, Victor
John Updike’s “A&P” and Sherman Alexie’s “ The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight In Heaven” seem notably similar. In Updike's story, a cashier in a store named “ A&P”, Sammy, notices three girls who walk into the store in bathing suits. After a dispute between one of the three girls, Queenie, and the store’s manager, Sammy rebels against the manager and mainstream culture by standing up for those girls and quitting his job. In Alexie’s story, similarly, an Indian from a reservation in Spokane, Victor