Landin Beer
1) In John Updike’s short story A&P, there were a few critical comments Updike
made through Sammy about supermarket society. When Sammy said “I bet you
could set off dynamite in an A&P and the people would by and large keep reaching
and checking oatmeal off their lists and muttering…” This goes to show how
oblivious people are to what is going on around them. Sammy also sticks up for
himself and the girls in the end of the story by speaking up to his boss and walking
out. He gave a voice to those girls. Sammy also realizes that these girls belong to a
higher social class then him that he could never be apart of.
2) In Katherine Mansfield’s Miss Brill, the significance of her fur not only in the story
but also for Miss Brill was very important. First of all, the fur shows that Miss Brill
resides in a good social class, with finer tastes and habits. It’s known that people
with more money buy fur. When I think deeper into the fur I also believe the fur
symbolizes something that looks fine on the outside but it is a animal cadaver on the
inside, just like Miss Brill she is happy on the outside but she is a depressed different
person on the inside. She is isolated and friendless throughout the story just like a
dead object.
3) In T.C. Boyle’s story, Greasy Lake, I believe the narrator felt like crying when “the
girls” offers to party with him and his friends, is because of everything he realized in
that moment. He finally saw who he had become, not in a good way. As soon as the
