Sammy, a Follower or a Leader John Updike, an excellent author of a short story presents us in A & P, a part of teenager’s life, easy to relate with everyone’s life. The picture, in which John Updike introduce his character, Sammy, as a responsible and mature young man which is working at A & P at the age of nineteen, conflicts with his rebellious actions and a behavior of typical American adolescent who is trying to overcome the growing pain of adolescence in search of individuality in a society
John Updike presents us in his story A&P, through Sammy’s actions, the protest of young and misunderstood generation which he sees in his story, as rebellious and visionless by older generation for which all that does not obey to society's standards is unusual, unaccepted, and accentuated by the fineness of details and nuances, a deep insight intuition of choosing revealing moments of 1960’s, in which sexuality was taboo. With this Updike is announcing a big change in the culture, and of the times
The parallel between “Cathedral” and “A&P” Raymond Carver with “Cathedral” and “A&P” by John Updike are both short stories, even if in facts they are written during the same century, readers can interpret the changes that occurred to be really different. They both introduce characters that are being victim of stereotype by the protagonists, but somehow these characters made a great change into the protagonists’ view of the world and life itself. The stories differ in atmosphere and the quantity