Comments about A dan P

Comments about "A&P"

After reread again, I think John Updike's story "A&P" brings us into question the difference between innocence and immaturity. There is a distinct difference between these states. Innocence is the purer of the two.

In John Updike's story A&P. Sammy is an innocent young man. Because of his innocence, he quits his job over three immature young women. These young women know better than to try what they do in the story, but they are not mature enough to realize how wrong it is.

I think that Sammy, the narrator of John Updike's short story A & P, reveals much about himself by the phraseology of his opening sentence: "In walks these three girls in nothing but bathing suits."

His grammar is flawed, but perhaps he is only being conversationally casual. Within a couple of pages he tells us that he turned 19 last April. Presumably he has just graduated from high school.