Choice In John Updike's A & P
Generally, everyone has to make choices in life. Just like many of the characters in stories, they choose whether it inhibits a favorable or awful choice. You will see that Sammy, Bailey’s wife, and Miss Moore makes difficult choices depending on the situations that they will face.
In the story “A&P” by John Updike, Sammy makes a decision to quit his job while standing up against Mr. Lengel’s unacceptable attitude toward the girls’ summer apparel. Meanwhile, talking to Mr. Lengel, Sammy remembers what his father says to him “once you begin a gesture, it’s fatal not to go through with it” (618). This remains a difficult choice because if he did not follow through with the choice, then no one would take him seriously when he has the inclination to quit. Once Sammy makes his choice, then he realizes “my stomach kind of fell as I felt how hard the world was going to be to me hereafter” (619). As well as life will get much harder without a job, especially in a small town, Sammy is not sure what to do after he quits but knows the store is not the place for him.
In the story “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara, Miss Moore the woman that “has been to college and she said that it was only right that she take …show more content…
The mother also makes a decision for her kids to die with her. “Would you and that little girl like to step off yonder with Bobby Lee and Hiram and join your husband” (1294). the answer she gives the man “Yes, thank you.”(1294) Bailey’s wife avoids the inevitable by making the choice to die instead of waiting for fate to take its course. She decides that her and her children are not going die by the Misfits’ choice. By taking the power from the Misfits and putting her and her children’s fate into her hands, she knows the outcome; most people would like to choose how to die if they ran across the same situation in
In the story “A&P” by John Updike, Sammy makes a decision to quit his job while standing up against Mr. Lengel’s unacceptable attitude toward the girls’ summer apparel. Meanwhile, talking to Mr. Lengel, Sammy remembers what his father says to him “once you begin a gesture, it’s fatal not to go through with it” (618). This remains a difficult choice because if he did not follow through with the choice, then no one would take him seriously when he has the inclination to quit. Once Sammy makes his choice, then he realizes “my stomach kind of fell as I felt how hard the world was going to be to me hereafter” (619). As well as life will get much harder without a job, especially in a small town, Sammy is not sure what to do after he quits but knows the store is not the place for him.
In the story “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara, Miss Moore the woman that “has been to college and she said that it was only right that she take …show more content…
The mother also makes a decision for her kids to die with her. “Would you and that little girl like to step off yonder with Bobby Lee and Hiram and join your husband” (1294). the answer she gives the man “Yes, thank you.”(1294) Bailey’s wife avoids the inevitable by making the choice to die instead of waiting for fate to take its course. She decides that her and her children are not going die by the Misfits’ choice. By taking the power from the Misfits and putting her and her children’s fate into her hands, she knows the outcome; most people would like to choose how to die if they ran across the same situation in