A & P By John Updike Analysis
Malina Janssen
English 1320
Danny Peters
March 2nd, 2015
Analysis from the three stories
In the story A&P by John Updike, it kind of made me feel uncomfortable and confused. I wasn’t completely sure about whether or not the narrator, which was the guy at the cash register, quit because he liked the one main girl or because he was really offended. This story just seems like it was written to entertain but not really to uphold a purpose towards anything. If anything the one thing I got out of this story was to definitely not go walking around in my swimsuit at Wal-Mart or HEB. An interesting thing from this story was the use of description. The word choice really portrayed strong imagery. For Example when he says, “She had sort of oaky hair …show more content…
In the first piece it made me feel really uncomfortable and grossed out because they spoke about how they were offended with the mice not coming to their kitchen when there was more crumbs lying around compared to the tidy kitchens. It made me feel uncomfortable because just thinking about how the people in the story were perfectly okay with their kitchen being a dumpster pretty much was just not normal. The next stories called The Outing and Fear, kind of go together in theme. They both gave me an emotional response. The author was obviously trying to make the reader feel something. The author also is trying to portray that we as humans all have common fears and common emotions. And that we should be able to come together to comfort each other in those times of needs because its apart of human nature. Then the last two stories called Odd Behavior and Lost Things had me questioning what I was reading. Both of these stories to me are very confusing. I feel like when the author wrote them they weren’t really trying to reflect any reasoning behind it. There could be some reasoning behind the story Lost Things, but I don’t understand it at
English 1320
Danny Peters
March 2nd, 2015
Analysis from the three stories
In the story A&P by John Updike, it kind of made me feel uncomfortable and confused. I wasn’t completely sure about whether or not the narrator, which was the guy at the cash register, quit because he liked the one main girl or because he was really offended. This story just seems like it was written to entertain but not really to uphold a purpose towards anything. If anything the one thing I got out of this story was to definitely not go walking around in my swimsuit at Wal-Mart or HEB. An interesting thing from this story was the use of description. The word choice really portrayed strong imagery. For Example when he says, “She had sort of oaky hair …show more content…
In the first piece it made me feel really uncomfortable and grossed out because they spoke about how they were offended with the mice not coming to their kitchen when there was more crumbs lying around compared to the tidy kitchens. It made me feel uncomfortable because just thinking about how the people in the story were perfectly okay with their kitchen being a dumpster pretty much was just not normal. The next stories called The Outing and Fear, kind of go together in theme. They both gave me an emotional response. The author was obviously trying to make the reader feel something. The author also is trying to portray that we as humans all have common fears and common emotions. And that we should be able to come together to comfort each other in those times of needs because its apart of human nature. Then the last two stories called Odd Behavior and Lost Things had me questioning what I was reading. Both of these stories to me are very confusing. I feel like when the author wrote them they weren’t really trying to reflect any reasoning behind it. There could be some reasoning behind the story Lost Things, but I don’t understand it at