Simple Sammy
In John Updike's short story "A&P", small town New England life is teeming with a whole lot of nothing. Sammy, the man who tells all, seems very uninterested in his job as a check out boy at the local A&P, yet very interested in the people who shop there. He uses his boredom as a vehicle of his imagination that allows him to pry his customers open and expose their true selves. Updike's Sammy shows himself as an observant, critical and very bored young man through his first person narration.
Updike's choice of first person perspective lends Sammy the ever powerful ability to quietly but relentlessly gather observations of the people and things around him. The first characters encountered are "three girls in nothing but bathing suits"(369). This scene would obviously catch the attention of any breathing male. But Sammy first takes in "the one in the plaid green two-piece. She was a chunky kid . . . [with] a sweet broad soft-looking can"(369). With these quick and most likely......
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