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Sammy, with his narration, proved to be sarcastic and opinionated, and someone who observes everything and everyone around him, which in his mind gives him power over everyone else. For instance, while he was absorbing every single detail about the girls’ physical appearance, he reflects that one never really knows how a girl’s mind works, and further goes to ask himself if it is “...a mind in there or just a little buzz like a bee in a glassjar?” Sammy believes he is superior to the girls because of the power of his observations and thinks he knows the type of people they are just by looking at them. Sammy proves the latter when he expresses the second girl is “... the kind of girl other girls think is very ‘striking’ and ‘attractive’ but
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