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A & P And Kingfish Fancy Herring Snacks In Pure Sour Cream
John Updike’s A&P (pg. 429) is about a young man named Sammy who worked in a checkout at his local grocery store. Sammy is helping a customer when he notices a trio of girls enters the store with just bathing suits. One girl seems to stand out from the others (Queenie) because she is leading the pack. Queenie then buys “Kingfish Fancy Herring Snacks in Pure Sour Cream" (line 11) and goes into Sammy’s checkout line. Lengal, Sammy manager then comes in and confronts the girls for wearing nothing. Sammy try’s to defend the girl but does not succeed. He then quits his job to get the attention of the girls as they leave the store. David Sedaris Jesus shaves (pg. 426) brings you into a French class in which the narrator has only been there for two months. However, the topic about they are discussing the different holidays and different celebrations. Although these stories have a lot of differences there are many similarities between the stories such as the point of view

One comparison these share is their point of view. In both stories, the story is told through young man eyes. Both characters experience things that don’t go as plan and or
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The narrator makes a couple viewpoints throughout the story showing his knowledge about the topic at hand. As far as Sammy in John Updike’s A&P it is clear that Sammy is not a reliable character in the short story. Sammy is more worried about the wrong things in life. He doesn’t think about things that will matter in 5 years, just worried about things that matter at a certain point in time. An example of that is when Sammy manager is trying to talk some sense into Sammy telling him that “you will get regret this” (21). Sammy continues to protest about how Lengal was wrong for handle the situation the way he did, not thinking about the consequences that lay

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