In Updike's story, Sammy notices [not "noticed"] odd details about the girl's appearance

Sammy, the narrator of the story "A& P", is a stubborn, sarcastic teenager, unhappy with a healthy interest in the opposite sex and found a sense of perception. Sammy sees around him, and drank in every detail of the girls in bathing suits outside their textures and patterns for different levels of tan lines. Sammy goes beyond the surface details to collect images of people watching. For example, tabs Queenie of broken bra intensely interested in the purely sensual, but also form a key that will build a picture of your inner life. When he heard that the girls, his image is even more if possible of the social situation of the Queenie to get. Sammy was the focus of observation and description of his own prejudices and blind spots visible. For example demonstrates Sammy entirely lustful eyes of the girls some immaturity, and is dismissive and contemptuous A & P customers, treating them as "sheep" and "house made." His colleague refused Sammy Stokes gift imagination as a sarcastic roar.

As Sammy is revealed throughout "A&P", I could not help but feel a direct familiarity with his character. Sammy is nearly every American teenage male. Yes, he is sexist. Yes, he has a problem with authority. He is also hypersensitive around his elders, and prone to making brash decisions. Being so young and inexperienced, his mental self has not fully developed.

Sammy ironic sense of superiority is that he understands that in the eyes of rich, happy Queenie seems genteel Stokes Lengel. His desire to excel, to prove that he is different, forcing him to leave his job. However, he says, "I quit", first because the girls want to hear, and the gesture loses its resonance when you realize that ...