In the book A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and the short story “A&P” by John Updike the writing styles are different.The message they deliver is similar but is expressed in a different writing style. In A Christmas Carol, the message sent to the reader is that Dickens was going against what society believed. He thought that there shouldn't be the rich and extremely poor, he believed everyone should be the same, and that the wealthier people should help the poor.Society had a different view of things they divided themselves into the wealthy and extremely poor, the rich people didn’t care for others.Although the author of A&P, Updike, sends a similar message Dickens expresses this message in a poetically romantic style. In “A&P” the style