A & P Rhetorical Analysis

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1. In this story, Updike describes Sammy’s perception about the situation that is seen by Sammy. Updike also describes those girls, Stokesie, and Lengels specifically on their movements and appearances by Sammy’s point of view, so the reader can imagine how the setting and the characterization of the people are look like in the story itself.

2. Updike draws Sammy as a person who wants to get attention from the girls, but also draws him as a person who cares about those girls’ feeling after they have been disgraced by Lengel. Yes he is, it proofs when Sammy shows his effort to quit the job for the sake of the girls will notice him as their hero. (Paragraph 23)

3. The part of the story that seems to be the exposition is the part when Lengel is forbidding them to enter A&P store due to their appearances (Paragraph 14). The paragraph shows Lengel and Queenie are showing their argument. The argument comes when the girls was being told by Lengel to not enter A&P store again, but Queenie as the leader of the three girls deny it that they are decent to be there.

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From the story, it tells that Sammy notices the girls as usual. After that, Sammy concerns about all the detail of Queenie’s appearance and her movements. He does that because he gets interest to her. (Paragraph 2, line 12). In addition, Sammy’s feeling into the girls may change when he cannot find the girls after he quit the job because the story said “..and my stomach kind of fell as I felt how hard the world was going to be me afterhere” (The last paragraph of the