Thursday, November 20, 2014
A&P
The whole story seems to take place within a couple of minutes. Sammy observes as these girls are stared at by other shoppers, as well as his coworkers. Sammy is turning 19 in april, and stokesie is 22 and married children. Stokesie is basically stuck working at the A&P for what we can assume will be the rest of his life. But Sammy believes this will never be his future. Lengel the store manager comes over and scolds the girls, telling this isnt the beach. At this point i believe Sammy quits because he wants to impress the girls but also because he doesn't want to be trapped at the A&P like his coworkers, stuck somewhere where girls in bathing suits in grocery stores is frowned upon. Possibly he wants to live a more spontaneous life.
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Sammy does what most young men envision themselves doing in that situation and I am sure he thought he would be the white knight in shinny armor, but life has a funny way of humbling spontaneity.
ReplyDeleteSammy made the consequences to leave his job because he wanted to relate to the girls, but what he ended up doing put him on the path of uncertainty, with nobody else to turn to, with no job, his future seems unsure. Breaking out of the norm is a risk at times and should be considered before making any decisions like he did. The problems of being different is certainly not uncommon.
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