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Sammy vs. the Grocery Store
In the story, “A & P”, John Updike differentiates the views of Sammy and the store with many eye-catching techniques. By presenting the store as the antagonist, the reader gains Sammy sense of view about things through his close detail and humor of situations. Well before the dramatic opportunity presents itself for Sammy to quit his job, his narrative voice has e ....
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.... Lengel starts to explain the policy. “All this while, the customers had been showing up with their carts but, you know sheep, seeing a scene, they had all bunched up on Stokesie…”
Sammy’s narration of the lady at the front counter presents an example of his defiant sense of humor. The phrases “a witch about fifty” and “if she’d been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem” demonstrates the intolerance Sammy has developed toward the “A & P ....
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