In the story A & P by John Updike, the author illustrates the protagonist as a bored teenager trying to escape a boring adult world. The protagonist’s name is Sammy, and he is tired of the regular customers of the A & P grocery store. Regular customers include nitpicky older women, “who had probably been watching cashiers for fifty years,” and overweight women with “varicose veins mapping their legs and nobody, including them, could care less.” These regulars offer no excitement for Sammy and make up an unchanging adult atmosphere around him. But one day in walk three te
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