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 capture with the three girls and Lengel. The main character, at first 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 free tick offing each other. Also, he was still living with his parents since his mother was the whizz who ironed his shirt for that day.With this addiction on his family, unfortunately, add togethers a price he must do his silk hat not to upset nor disap eyeshade his parents. Like most young sons, Sammy was curious, observant and almost al ports wonders. With the arrival of the girls, Sammy at first adopts the usual repartee of a young, immature teenager and that was to admire the girls based on their appearance. ordinarily one not to commit mistakes, he was sc emeritused by an elderly brothel keeper for his lapse. Instead of taking right for his mistake, he comforts himself by dictum that the old wo valet was a witch who had goose egg better to do.In the first parts of the story, he was still childish and hormonally driven, especially when he was with his friend Stokesie as they checked out the girls. For him to take such a keen interest and distract him from his obligation emphasizes the temptation that the girlsor to a greater extent specifically, the Queenposed on him. The situation was wherefore exacerbated since they started to walk around with nothing but their bathing suits and distract everyone around them, and unwittingly take people with their gestures. The trance was broken when Lengel entered and started to admonish them in front of everyone.The girls passing game around the aisles can be interpreted as a dream for Sammy three attr officious young girls walking slowly around in the telephone line conditioned room under the lights in their bathing su its with no shorees 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 counselling that the Queen took out her payment was like a dream come true. The movement of the girls and the way that every aspect of them was emphasized seemed sublime. The thousand of the story itself seems to be dreamlike in nature, all seen in Sammys eyes.Lengels entrance 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 passenger car symbolized responsibility and the end of childhood fantasies. Updike narrates that Lengel is the straitlaced type of man, one who teaches sunshine school. He starts to admonish the girls and embarrassed them in front of every body. Sammy watches the girls luff their reasons for coming in yet Lengel still admonishes them.In Sammys eyes, Lengel was orga nism unreasonable and preferred to have things only two ways his way or one is a delinquent for not following. At that point, the main character realizes that the situation is more intricate than the girls not following policy. What Lengel did in Sammys eyes was a show of power using his office staff as manager to not only admonish the girls but to as well embarrasses them. Even if the girl was only fulfilling an errand for her mother, he still didnt listen. It was lucid 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. Before they left, the main character do a show of quitting, an indirect way of telling the girls that he was reservation a stand and that he thinks that they were untreated fairly. Unfortunately, in contrast to his exemplification 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 despite creation alone in his opinion since he has positive the sense that one must go through with ones actions and take responsibility for them.He then(prenominal) mustered up the courage to question 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 black 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 get by miniscule for the welfare of others.Like in the case of Lengel, the manager suasion that they were the ones be embarrassed by the girls and not the other way around. It was then decipherable that Lengel pulled this exhibition of power since everyone else was watching and that he felt that the integrity of the store was being threatened. In Lengels eyes, the girls were devoteting on an indecent show for everyone and even distracted his most trusty clerk. merely Sammy still retained some of his dependence and thirst for approval since he briefly plan 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 enactment of maturity, he went through with his decision knowing 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 power saw and what his point of view was, signaling to the audience that he was exhibiting the same fount as the adults.He then starts to shed the clothes that symbolized his dependence the accede tie and the apron. Yet with his actions, Sammy still exuded that idealistic and childlike quality that enabled him to care whether the girls were still there or that he can make a clean exit since it was summer and he didnt have to waste around for his winter apparel. Throughout the course of the story, he has addressed the shoppers as sheep, letting 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 laboured and most often times would leave you lonely and that since he has break himself from his dependence on his par ents, he would have to make it out on the world on his own.This transition is symbolized by Sammy standing in the juicy summer sun with no one but the mother who is foreclose at her children while the others are inside in the comfort of the air conditioned A&P. Seeing Lengel with such a harsh expression similarly 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 someway had a feeling that the world was a lot more complicated that he thought and that not every rig ht thing was rewarded. rest up for what was right will prove 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. every that or he would have to be harsh like Lengel was. It is also interesting to note 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.