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Mistakes In A & P By John Updike

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People always make mistakes because of what they desire and imagine. After creating these mistakes, these people are responsible to face the aftermath. In John Updike’s short story A&P, a teen named Sammy is inexperience and immature is and he is possessed by his desires and imagination to do what he wants. In the story, Sammy described the girls to make them really stand out from the rest of the customers because the girls are what he desire. Next, he wants and imagines “them to hear, hoping they'll stop and watch…[him], their unsuspected hero.” In the end, Sammy let his desires and imagination rule out his other thoughts. As a result, he will have to faced the consequences which are his parents’ ranting, being jobless, and no girls. Because
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