Life in the Sixties :: essays research papers

Life in the Sixties     Sometimes in aliveness people do strange things, and while others may perceive it as a harmless act, human morals can make it count otherwise. In the story A & P John Updike reveals what it is interchangeable to have been a young man who worked in a securities industry store in the nineteen-sixties and what it was like to see trey young girls passport in with only cardinal pieces on. The semi- sexist thoughts of how Sammy describes the young girls when they walk in, the three girls walking in to the grocery store in only two pieces was obviously against the moral standards of that day, and sometimes small, seemingly insignificant actions and events can urge a person to make a life-changing decisions, are the themes of John Updikes story.      How men perceive women is a funny thing, Sammy, the one(a) who is telling the story, gives, what we recollect familiar, and almost kind of a perverted way of describin g the girls. Updike used his descriptions of the girls to trifle out that men, even then had impure thoughts of women and the way that we perceive them sometimes, very though, its the nineteen-sixties and in walks three beautiful girls in not tho bathing suits, besides two pieces Of course a male see is going to start racing a million miles per second. So begins the sexual descriptions of the girls. So as Sammy is surrounding up the ladys feed at the cash register, he cant help but be distracted, Updike shows us this when Sammy says I stood there with a box of HiHo cockamamy trying to remember if I rang it up or not. I ring it up and the customer starts giving me hell(p.344). Updike clearly showed that the girls were a disturbance to Sammy, and how easy it was for his thoughts to go astray.      The three girls walking into the A & P was not what was wrong, it was the fact that they came in wearing bathing suits. Not nevertheless the normal bathing s uit, but a bikini By law, one had to be over eighteen just to get in to a movie if there were going to be women in bikinis in it. twain piece bathing suits were practically unheard of and if someone was caught wearing one, they powerfulness have been considered mad and irresponsible. Walking into the grocery store would be were the wild part comes in.