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Title: A & P Supermarket
Words: 864
The story "A & P" by John Updike is a tale of a young man who lets his desires and his anger get a little to far ahead of him and in the end winds up quitting his job. This leads to the theme of the story, standing up for the individual against the system is right but difficult. Updike takes quite a bit of time describing the main character in A & P, which is Sammy, a nineteen-year-old boy from a small suburb outside Boston who works at an A & P Supermarket. Sammy seems like an average boy, because his language is simple and not complete, who seems a tad bit tired of the regular customers who come into his store. Regular customers including those older married women with multiple kids, the overweight lady who has no regrets wearing her bathing suit that doesn't quite cover, and the nit p ...
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