Sammy, the young character in John Updike's "A & P" is truly a dynamic character. At the beginning of this short story, Sammy seems to be maintaining the status quo in his job as a checker at the local grocery store in a small New England beach town. He is content until the day that three young women walk into the grocery store in just their bathing suits, no shirts and no shoes. Immediately, Sammy's …showed first 75 words of 948 total…

…showed last 75 words of 948 total…without notice, a job with one of his parents' oldest friends. He will have difficulty obtaining a new job. He might end up as one of the "freeloaders" that he detests. Or worse, he might end up a sheep. Works Cited Dessner, Lawrence Jay. "Irony and Innocence in John Updike's A & P". In Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 25. No.3, Summer, 1988, pp.315-317. Kirszner & Mandell. Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing. Fifth Edition. Boston: Heinle Publishers, 2204.