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This 5 page paper compares and contrasts the critiques of two reviewers: Salvidar and Wells of John Updike's short story, A&P. Quotes cited from works. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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just as no one person views a painting in the same way, or interprets a beautiful piece of music like anyone else, so too will the critical reader come away
with different insight and critiques of a work. Walter Wells in his critique of A&P by John Updike states that the story is told in first person. The problem
with first person, he suggests, is that the camera is only inside of Sammys head and the thoughts and perspectives of his boss, the people that viewed him, Stoksie, and
the others are only gained through Sammys perspective. In a short span of time, one sees Sammy going from one of the nameless faceless check out clerks at the
local supermarket, to someone who has decided to be responsible for his own destiny. One finds themselves feeling very proud of Sammy, though curious, when he stands up to Mr.
Lengel. The thoughts that Sammy has while he is working, at the first of the story, show a young man, still engrossed with pigeon holing everyone he meets. They either
are good or they are bad. Beautiful or ugly. Young or old. There are no shades of gray, so to speak. Wells suggests, then, that in childlike fashion, he accepts
what anyone tells him at face value, though as the story wears on a touch of skepticism begins to creep in. Especially when he speaks of Stoksie, in this example:
"I forgot to say he thinks hes going to be manager some sunny day, maybe in 1990 when its called the Great Alexandrov and Petrooshki Tea Company or something"(Updike, 127).
Proving that no two people view a work of art (or literature) the same way, Toni Salvidor offers that Updike, for whom literature and art have been intertwined since youth,
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