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A & P , Cathedral

In my personal opinion John Updike’s story A & P is the best story we’ve read in class so far. He does a phenomenal job drawling his readers into the scene and setting. What made this story unique in my mind are his narration, characters, and points.
Updike did a wonderful job with using Sammy to narrate this story. I like the fact that the speech is informal and easy to relate to. Sammy’s ramblings whether internally or externally reflect his personality and views of the people around him. I like looking at Sammy’s thoughts because of the way he process and describes things like the lady who is one of those “cash-register-watchers, a witch about fifty with rouge on her cheekbones and no eyebrows” (pg 266) who was just waiting for him to screw up so she could complain. The setting is especially important in this story. For example it would not make sense to have three girls walk into a convenience store in swimsuits in Alaska. The fact that this store is only five......


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