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 …show more content…
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