Sammy in “A & P” by John Updike is a typical developed teenager, who goes through many changes throughout the story. It all started when he saw three girls enter the shop, more or less his age, dressed only in bathing suits, this flattered him. This made Sammy think a lot during the event. He disliked his job and expressed his opinions throughout the story. As Sammy saw the three girls, he analyzed everything around him, from the girls, to his town, to the customer and the store employees. When he watched the girls walk around the store with their heads held high. Sammy, the rounded and dynamic character that he is, began to face many challenges where he had to decide how he wanted his life to turn out, rather than stay or move on to bigger and better things. Sammy had a typical boring job and what seemed to be a typical small town job. The only person in the store he really related to was Stokesie, who is Sammy's foil, because Stokesie is married, has kids, and eventually wanted to be a manager one day. Something Sammy didn't want to be left to see. The customers in the store were all pretty much the same, to whom Sammy didn't show much emotion except that he referred to them as "the sheep pushing their carts down the aisle" (Updike 261). It's easy to say that Sammy didn't like his job, but it also seemed like he had no other choice, like he was stuck in his small town and there was no way out. Then suddenly he saw three girls wearing only their swimsuits enter the store. Sammy noticed something different about them, as if they had been freed from the conservative values ​​of those times; they were part of a new generation. Especially Queenie, he was referring to... middle of the paper... eg you're not happy with where you are in life and you really want a change. With Sammy he always wanted to quit, but he never had the courage to get up and go through with it, especially because he didn't have that free-thinking mentality like the girls. Even though when he finally walked out of the store and the girls weren't there, he had no idea what was going to happen in life, but he knew he was free to make his own decisions. Sammy no longer had to put up with Mr. Lengel's nonsense, or stand by and watch Stocksie become the manger. This was the time for him to stop being a push-over and pave the way for his own future. His parents may have been upset, but this gave him the opportunity to defend his actions and have confidence in the choices he had made, regardless of whether they were right or wrong. Sammy was able to move on and start a new chapter in his life.