John Updike’S “A&P”
John Updike’s “A&P”
John Updike's short story "A & P" shows you that there is a very thin line between being a hero and being stupid. I do admire the courage of the morally ambitious teenager who decides to standup and defend the young women’s honor in true fairy tale fashion. However, I can also see a sense of stupidity that occurs when you take a young adolescent teenager making off-the-hip decisions in order to impress the opposite sex. The decisions are hardly ever logic driven but for some strange reason they seem to always make sense at the time. For example, in Sammie’s mind he was making the right decision and as he walks out of the store thinking he is going to collect his reward for standing up for the girls he realizes that his efforts went unnoticed as he says “I look around for my girls, but they're gone, of course. There wasn't anybody but some young married screaming with her children about some candy they didn't get by the door of a powder-blue......
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