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John Updike's contemporary short story “A&P” is narrated by Sammy, a nineteen year old checkout clerk at a local grocery store. The story focuses on a specific experience concerning three young girls who enter the store. Through Sammy's observation and analysis of the girls and the other patrons, the reader is able to better understand Sammy's personal character. Sammy is immature, boldly chauvinistic, and bored with his mediocre surroundings. However, by the end of the story, Sammy does undergo a preliminary “initiation into maturity”(14), placing his outlook for the future and old way of life in question.

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