Growth of Sammy in John Updikes A&P :: A&P John Updike

The Growth of Sammy in Updikes A & P In the story A&P, by John Updike, the principal(prenominal) character Sammy makes the leap from an adolescent, knowing little more ab disclose breeding than what he has learned working at the local grocery store, into a patch prepared for the rough road that lies ahead. As the story begins, Sammy is nineteen and has no real grasp for the fact that he is about to be living on his own working to support himself. Throughout the family of the story, he changes with a definite step into, first, a young man realizing that he must get out of the hole he is in and further into a man, who has a grasp on reality tone forward to starting his own family. In the beginning, Sammy is but a jejuneness growing up learning what he knows about life in small town grocery store. His role models include, Stokesie, the twenty-two year-old, supporting a family doing the homogeneous job Sammy does yet aspiring to one twenty-four hours rich person the managers po sition, and Lengel, the store manager who most certainly started out in the same place that Stokesie and he were already in. Stoksie, the great role model, continues to be as adolescent as Sammy, with his Oh, Daddy, I feel so faint, and even Sammy sees this noting that as far as I can tell thats the only dissimilitude (between he and I). Sammy whittles away his days looking at pretty girls and view about the ways of people. He hardly realizes that this is how he will egest his entire existence if he doesnt soon get out of this job. During this day that will prove to change his life, he makes the step towards his realization. He decides that he doesnt want to spend the rest of his life working at an A&P competing for the store managers position. Sammy thinks to himself about his parents current social class and what they attend at cocktail parties. And, in turn, he thinks about what he will be serving, if he stays at the A&P, When my parents have somebody all over they get lemon ade and if its a real racy affair Schlitz in long glasses with Theyll Do It Every Time cartoons stenciled on. He must get out and the sooner the better. He is still just an adolescent who hasnt completely archetype through his decision and yet his mind is made up.