Sammy By John Updike Analysis

The short story Updike's by John Updike is narrated by Sammy, a young teenage boy who works as a cashier at a local grocery store called A&P. However, Sammy like many other people in the world, tries to make some money by working in a small town, unlike other people, Sammy refuses to be stuck in the same job for a long time. Sammy is attracted by three young teenage girls who walked in the local grocery store with their bathing suits on, but nothing else. Sammy is fascinated, he describes them in a elaborate details. However, when he see the three girls he nicknames the Queenie. He sees a chance to transform his wishes into reality by defending the three girls and telling off his boss, Lengl, for how rude he was to the three girls. However, Sammy decides to quits his job because his manager has embarrassed the three young girls due to their way of dressing. He also tried to impress the girls by making an adult decision of leaving his job because it was boring and was treated poorly by the customers, but he is not aware of the consequences that he will face due to his social status. However, Sammy doesn’t realize that all choices have consequences. First, Sammy just like any other male teenager he felt responsible to protect the three girls that he got attracted to and by so he decided to quit. To his thinking, he was trying to bring the

However, Queenie was from a wealthy higher class structure, unlike, Sammy was considered from a lower class structure. So by quitting his job, Sammy was not affecting himself only, but his but family too. Further, by Lengel saying " Sammy, you don’t want to do this to your mom and dad," meaning that Sammys job was important to his family as it helped them paying some of the bills. Later, after quitting, Sammy gained an understanding that him and the Queenie were from a different social classes and realized the differences between