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Updike's A&P.(imagery in the works of John Updike)(Critical Essay)
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The Explicator
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June 22, 2003
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Explications and interpretations of John Updike's often anthologized story "A&P" have proliferated over the years, but even as recently as Corey Evan Thompson's entry in The Explicator (215), no one has observed a dominant strain of imagery in the story that bears on the interpretation of Sammy, the story's focus. Thompson's concern is Sammy as the narrator who shows that he merely uses the girls who visit the A&P where he works to precipitate his already made decision to resign. But this ignores Updike's imagery, which casts the girls as temptresses who lead Sammy astray. Thus he is also not quite the hero Toni Saldivar makes him out to be in "The Art of John Updike's ...
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