In the play “A&P;” Author John Updike describes in detail what a boy’s infatuation can lead him to do. Updike also does what every playwright tries to do, he himself in the play “A&P;” author John Updike describes the setting and customers very accurately, while using character names that describe the subtleties of their personalities and allows the reader to make assumptions about Sammy’s motives for leaving.
In “A&P;” Updike describes the setting akin to the 1950’s “Leave It to Beaver.” This is an organization in which everything seems ordinary and seems gray. The air probably won’t knock and Sammy’s three girls looks like the most fun he’s ever had in store. For example, Sammy describes florescent lights, stacks of packages, and a checkered green and cream rubber-tile floor. grocery is the perfect type of organization for this story. This place allows girls to stand out even more than otherwise. Although in bathing-suits, its almost like the idea of public nudity in a commercial setting that made the girls seem disgusting.
Updike’s method of describing A&P; The store also refers to the personality of the city and the “sheep” as Sammy’s character speaks in the story. Sammy equates customers with sheep which means they stay together and do everything together. When one sheep goes, the other sheep follow her, all looking at the same thing. Sammy describes how those people fight when they see Regina. You would have seen, he said, when the white shoulders of the queen shone, the raider, or jumps, or hiccoughs, but their eyes were driven to their baskets. I believe you could use dynamite in A& P and the people by and large took and pressed their oatmeal limits and muttering “I see, it was the third, it started with A, asparagus, no, ah, yes, applesauce!” they mutter Here he describes his sheep as very well behaved.
In addition to carefully describing the setting, Updike describes the characters best. He gives all the characters great names that fits into personality and just describes them to Sammy. For example, the name Sammy is a light-hearted, friendly boyish name. Sammy’s co-worker’s name Stokesie sounds like his last name which happened to be his first name. This may indicate that Sammy is an older person with roles. Sammy Stokesie describes a “marriage, with two children already chalky in the fuselage, but as far as I can tell this is the only thing that matters. They are twenty-two, and nineteen this April.” The names Updike uses can also describe authoritative characters and a sharp presence.
For example, Queenie is a name that perfectly describes the girl Sammy is infatuated with. A woman is important, powerful and alluring. He described walking in the store throughout the story. “She came down,” he said, “a little laboriously in her heels, as if she hadn’t walked much in bare feet, putting her heels down and shifting her weight on her toes as if she were testing the floor with each step, putting a little extra deliberate action into it. You never know for sure how girls’ minds work.” (Do you really think that the mind is in these or a little buzzing like a bee in a glass?) but you have that idea. Two others came in here, and he just showed himself to do, walk slowly, and hold yourself like an omen Sammy doesn’t like laws and laws they make.
In addition to describing the characters, assumptions can be made as to why Sammy would give up. One reason and probably the main reason he was quiet was trying to impress the girls. He wanted them to observe what he did, and later observe it. For example, Queen Sammy represents something. It represents something bigger and better for him. The way he talks about the townspeople in the town and the way he talks about it seems to indicate that Sammy is a blue collar boy perhaps longing for white collar girl “. He says, “we are right in the middle of town, and if you stand in front of our doors, you can see the two banks and the Congregational church and erial newspapers and three real estate offices and about twenty-seven-year-old children of transport pushed back on Central Street, because the sewer is being released again. It is not as if we are on the Cape; we’re from North Boston and the people in this town haven’t seen the ocean in twenty years.
Rexfish Fancy Herring Works in Pure Sour Cream bought a barrel to make sense. So perhaps there is a social element in history. Also, Sammy can have a quiet protest. Perhaps in some kind of female protest or perhaps her way of saying that she does not want to be one of the sheep of the village. He thinks he’s doing the right thing, so when he leaves, he thinks it’s done. So instead of delaying he soon received the consequences. Sammy is a typical well-intentioned American male trying to find his way. Although the end of the story says that the world will be harder in it because in a small town everyone knows that they are quiet. . as it will be known more readily. His parents will be disappointed. So basically she had abandoned her job and handed over her good baby girl names and she just disappeared into him.
