“A few house slaves in curlers even looked around after pushing their carts. John Updike's argument was that it took a group of girls his age to wake Sammy from the boring and unhappy life he led working at A&P. The text reads: “Stokesie is married with two babies… He is twenty-two and I was nineteen last April. I forgot to say that he thinks he'll become a manager one sunny day. Sammy already sees that if he continues working at A&P he will end up like Stokes and he is not ready for that yet and also that it will take him years to become a manager at A&P. In the A&P it says "You'll feel this way for the rest of your life," Lengel says, and I know that's true too, but remembering how he made that pretty girl blush makes me so shudder inside... I look around me. for my girls, but they're gone, of course... my stomach kind of dropped when I felt how hard the world was going to be for me afterwards. Sammy decided to quit his job, not only to impress young girls, but also to free himself from the cycle he sees in his job. Even though he knows it's going to be difficult for him, leaving his job was a good thing. decision for