"Did you say something Sammy?" "I said I quit." Four simple words, and a few steps can change your life forever. Thus Sammy found out in the short story entitled A& P written by John Updike. This story really gives you an insight into the somewhat complex mind of a teenager. Checking items for an incoming customer is not all that the main character, Sammy, is worried about "checking." Analyzing three girls that walk …showed first 75 words of 482 total…

…showed last 75 words of 482 total…y's life, he was completely distracted because of his curiousness of the opposite sex. Taking that and running, he quits his job hoping for better things, like the girls. He does not realize the serious impact that little choice that he made had on him in the long-run. Instead of thinking of the wonderful things that he DID have like a job and money, he was looking at the things that he didn't- the girls.