"A & P" by John Updike

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"A & P" (1961)

by John Updike

elements of fiction
              -character
              -setting of time,place
                   season or month: like summer or July
                   location: A&P supermarket
              -plot
              -narration
                   tone: serious, humorous, ironic, sincere

1st person point of view :provide the narrowest point of view
This story is all Sammy's observation and assumption(guesses).
He also judged.

the narrator: Sammy
                  -the observant
                  -imaginative
                  -prejudiced
                  -sense of beauty
                  -sense of justice
                  -guts

exposition:
expose: to explore
            to provide details of background
            characters

gap between cultural or social classes


characters(characteristics)
-Sammy
       Age: 19
       job: cashier
       personality: passionate, thoughtless,
       action he took:
-Lengel
       Age: maybe fourty something
       job: manager
       personality: stubborn,religious,pious,propriety, conservative,meticulous,serious
       action he took: humiliated the three girls
-Stokesie
       Age: 22 and married
       job: cashier
       personality:
       prospect: One day he would be a manager.
-3 ladys
-other customers
       'sheep',housewives,
       house-slaves:narrow-minded


symbols
"Sammy" name on the apron<-----------------------> identity


"A&P" is an initiation story, a story of growth(gaining maturity)
We look at the whole thing through Sammy's eyes.
(first person narration, by first person narrator)
If this story were written by 3rd person point of view,it will be more objective

Differences from Different Point of View
1st :what, how
3rd:what, how, why