Essays on Life
Alondra Sanes
November 24,2012
Ms.Inman
Character Analysis Essay
In the story "A&P" by John Updike the narrator Sammy comes face to face with a problem that is a bit foolish. In "A&P"
Sammy is a cashier at the store, he's about 6 foot 1, he's light skinned with brown eyes, and he wears a red apron with a white button
up and black pants as his uniform. What rises up the heat with Sammy and his boss Lengel in "A&P", is when three beautiful girls
walk in each in their bikini two chubby ones, and one really pretty and slim named Queenie. In the conflict he gets into with the three
girls and his boss shows how flabbergasted he was by these chicks, that he would do something pretty stupid like what he did with his
job.
The kind of conflict Sammy gets into from him being so amazed with the beauty of the three girls is him and his boss
Lengel getting into an argument and his boss arguing with the three girls mostly Queenie. In the story it states Lengel telling the girls
"We want you decently dressed when you come in here". Quennie responded by telling him "We are decent", with a hint of
embarassment. Sammy had saw his "goddess" Queenie was feeling so he decided to respond to Lengel by saying "I Quit". But
he said it a little to late because after he had quit the girls checked out and left.
I honestly believe Sammy quitting his job was so pointless and foolish. Sammy had only quit because Lengel had made the
girls especially Queenie feel embarssed of what they were wearing at the A&P. I understand that Sammy wanted to stand up for the
girls and do what he thinks is right, but he knows after they walk out that store he'll probably never see them again, so he quit his job
for nothing. Now he has no job and no girls.
Sammy the narrator in the "A&P" wants to show that he can be a hero by quitting his job as a cashier cause the girls felt
embarassed, but that was the
November 24,2012
Ms.Inman
Character Analysis Essay
In the story "A&P" by John Updike the narrator Sammy comes face to face with a problem that is a bit foolish. In "A&P"
Sammy is a cashier at the store, he's about 6 foot 1, he's light skinned with brown eyes, and he wears a red apron with a white button
up and black pants as his uniform. What rises up the heat with Sammy and his boss Lengel in "A&P", is when three beautiful girls
walk in each in their bikini two chubby ones, and one really pretty and slim named Queenie. In the conflict he gets into with the three
girls and his boss shows how flabbergasted he was by these chicks, that he would do something pretty stupid like what he did with his
job.
The kind of conflict Sammy gets into from him being so amazed with the beauty of the three girls is him and his boss
Lengel getting into an argument and his boss arguing with the three girls mostly Queenie. In the story it states Lengel telling the girls
"We want you decently dressed when you come in here". Quennie responded by telling him "We are decent", with a hint of
embarassment. Sammy had saw his "goddess" Queenie was feeling so he decided to respond to Lengel by saying "I Quit". But
he said it a little to late because after he had quit the girls checked out and left.
I honestly believe Sammy quitting his job was so pointless and foolish. Sammy had only quit because Lengel had made the
girls especially Queenie feel embarssed of what they were wearing at the A&P. I understand that Sammy wanted to stand up for the
girls and do what he thinks is right, but he knows after they walk out that store he'll probably never see them again, so he quit his job
for nothing. Now he has no job and no girls.
Sammy the narrator in the "A&P" wants to show that he can be a hero by quitting his job as a cashier cause the girls felt
embarassed, but that was the