After Edie and Sammy have set their eyes on people who they thought were the loves of their lives, something happens. Sammy is waiting for Queenie, and her girlfriends, to be setting outside, and Edie is waiting for a letter from Chris, or Chis himself to show up. Another similarity in the stories is that someone is criticized. Edie hears an earful when she admits to being “intimate” with Chris and is called “filthy little rags” (Munro 199, par. 177). Queenie and her friends are instructed by Lengel to be “decently dressed” when going to the A&P (Updike 20, par. 16). “A & P” and “How I Met My Husband” have very similar structures and have similar themes. Many of the characters share common traits and both stories share the same setting of coming of age. While many may think that the two stories a very different, once the stories are closely analyzed, their similarities are quite
After Edie and Sammy have set their eyes on people who they thought were the loves of their lives, something happens. Sammy is waiting for Queenie, and her girlfriends, to be setting outside, and Edie is waiting for a letter from Chris, or Chis himself to show up. Another similarity in the stories is that someone is criticized. Edie hears an earful when she admits to being “intimate” with Chris and is called “filthy little rags” (Munro 199, par. 177). Queenie and her friends are instructed by Lengel to be “decently dressed” when going to the A&P (Updike 20, par. 16). “A & P” and “How I Met My Husband” have very similar structures and have similar themes. Many of the characters share common traits and both stories share the same setting of coming of age. While many may think that the two stories a very different, once the stories are closely analyzed, their similarities are quite