Sammy of Updike’s A & P: The Voice of Youth and Openness
John Updike, in his short story A & P, has made the excellent choice of making an unpretentious nineteen-year-old boy the narrator. Sammy, the check-out counter boy provides an honest and unequivocal look at the other characters the way young boys can be. As a narrator, Sammy is able to give the readers a background of what the other characters are like, by describing their […]