Sammys development through the story

A&P, written by John Updike is considered as an initiation story. It focuses on Sammy, a clerk and his experience with the lead girls and Lengel. The main character, at firstly is dependent on his family and their connections to survive. He was employed by his father and mothers friend, Lengel and it is hinted that his grandmother had a considerable influence on him and that they were nevertheless agnizeing each other. Also, he was hushed living with his parents since his mother was the mavin who ironed his dress for that day.With this dependence on his family, unfortunately, comes a price he must do his best non to swage nor disappoint his parents. Like most young boys, Sammy was curious, observant and almost always wonders. With the arrival of the girls, Sammy at first adopts the usual response of a young, immature teenager and that was to admire the girls based on their appearance. Usually one not to commit mistakes, he was scolded by an elderly lady for his lapse. Instead of taking certificate of indebtedness for his mistake, he comforts himself by saying that the old woman was a witch who had nothing better to do.In the first parts of the story, he was free childish and hormonally impelled, especially when he was with his friend Stokesie as they analyze out the girls. For him to take such a keen interest and distract him from his responsibility emphasizes the temptation that the girlsor more specifically, the puffposed on him. The situation was therefore exacerbated since they started to walk around with nothing yet their bathing suits and distract everyone around them, and unwittingly seduce people with their gestures. The dream was broken when Lengel entered and started to admonish them in front of everyone.The girls going around the aisles can be interpreted as a dream for Sammy three attr active young girls walking slowly around in the air well-educated room below the lights in their bathing suits with no beaches nearby. It was unreal and fantastic it was a dream for every hormone active teenager. Even the fact that they ended up in his lane and the way that the Queen took out her hire was like a dream come true. The movement of the girls and the way that every aspect of them was emphasize seemed sublime. The pace of the story itself seems to be dreamlike in nature, all seen in Sammys eyes.Lengels spellbind from the outside breaks the dream his entrance can be interpreted as reality coming back. In reality, a boy like Sammy has to answer to an authoritative figure represented by Lengel. His omnibus symbolized responsibility and the end of childhood fantasies. Updike narrates that Lengel is the straitlaced type of man, one who teaches Sunday school. He starts to admonish the girls and embarrassed them in front of every body. Sammy watches the girls state their reasons for coming in yet Lengel still admonishes them.In Sammys eyes, Lengel was being unreasonable and preferred to have things only two ways his wa y or one is a delinquent for not avocation. At that point, the main character realizes that the situation is more complicated than the girls not following policy. What Lengel did in Sammys eyes was a show of power using his position as manager to not only admonish the girls exactly to also embarrasses them. Even if the girl was only fulfilling an errand for her mother, he still didnt listen. It was obvious that the Queen went out of her way to buy the jar of herring snacks since the beach was miles and miles away.Also, the Queen seemed to be of a higher social class than Sammy he sees this and realizes the difference between the both of them. out front they left, the main character made a show of quitting, an indirect way of telling the girls that he was make a stand and that he thinks that they were untreated fairly. Unfortunately, in contrast to his ideal fantasies of them seeing him as their hero, they left him to fend for himself. A mark of his maturity was shown in the way that he refused to back down patronage being alone in his opinion since he has demonstrable the sense that one must go through with ones actions and take responsibility for them.He then mustered up the courage to irresolution the authority for their actions. Lengel then explained to Sammy his own view of what transpired, ushering another realization for the main character. The realization is that not everything is raw and white and that people tend to have differing opinions and their own point of view, never realizing the harm that they cause others. Also, in contrast to what is usually taught, in practice, people will choose their own interests and will care flyspeck for the welfare of others.Like in the case of Lengel, the manager thought that they were the ones being embarrassed by the girls and not the other way around. It was then clear that Lengel pulled this exhibition of power since everyone else was watching and that he felt that the righteousness of the store was be ing threatened. In Lengels eyes, the girls were putting on an indecent show for everyone and even distracted his most trusty clerk. Yet Sammy still retained some of his dependence and thirst for approval since he briefly thought of his grandmother and how proud she would be of him if she could see him now.Lengel then started to remind Sammy of his responsibility to his parents, a sacred oath that he was not allowed to break. In his transition of maturity, he went through with his decision penetrating the consequences and outright told Lengel that he knew what he was doing and that the manager was the one who didnt know what he himself was doing. At that point, Sammy developed a different opinion based on what he saw and what his point of view was, preindication to the audience that he was exhibiting the same behavior as the adults.He then starts to shed the clothes that symbolized his dependence the bow tie and the apron. Yet with his actions, Sammy still exuded that idealistic an d childlike quality that enabled him to care whether the girls were still in that location or that he can make a clean exit since it was summer and he didnt have to fumble around for his winter apparel. Throughout the course of the story, he has addressed the shoppers as sheep, allow themselves herded into one point or the other.His description takes life when the shoppers stood and did nothing to defend the young ladies from Lengels verbal assault, unlike Sammy who stood up for what he believed in. As Sammy went out of the store, Lengel is seen taking care of the sheep in his place, the people who were still willing to follow authority despite of its misgivings. The last transition then occurred at that point Sammy realized that fighting for what you believed in would be hard and most often times would leave you lonely and that since he has divorced himself from his dependence on his parents, he would have to make it out on the cosmos on his own.This transition is symbolized by Sammy standing in the hot summer sun with no one but the mother who is frustrated at her children while the others are inside in the comfort of the air conditioned A&P. Seeing Lengel with such a harsh expression also made Sammy realize that the world has not been friendly to the old man either, and that he had to be strong and be the way he is just to survive. He had to forego other peoples feelings and put his interests first.From being a childish, hormonally driven pampered boy, Sammy matured into a responsible man who is not willing to back down from what he believes in once he sees injustice being committed. Like a young man, he went through with his decisions and refused to be intimidated by threats or emotional blackmail. Yet like a young boy, he still holds his idealism and somehow had a feeling that the world was a lot more complicated that he thought and that not every right thing was rewarded.Standing up for what was right will uprise to be difficult in a world of Lengels who all thought that they were the ones who were right. If he were to refuse to see injustice and stand up and oppose authority for what he believed in every single time, then like his experience at A&P, he will have no choice but to leave. Either that or he would have to be harsh like Lengel was. It is also interesting to pure tone that while Sammy was narrating the story, his parents thought that it was sad yet Sammy himself thought nothing of as if he accepted what transpired.