e/A&P (story)

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has gloss	eng: "A & P" is a short story written by John Updike in 1961 in which the hero and first person narrator seemingly takes a stand for his version of what is right, only to face disappointment. M. Gilbert Porter referred to the titular "A & P" in Updikes story as "the common denominator of middle-class suburbia, an appropriate symbol for [the] mass ethic of a consumer-conditioned society." According to Porter, when the main character chooses to rebel against the A & P he also rebels against this consumer-conditioned society, and in so doing he "has chosen to live honestly and meaningfully." William Peden, on the other hand, referred to the story as "deftly narrated nonsense...which contains nothing more significant than a checking clerks interest in three girls in bathing suits."
lexicalization	eng: A&P
instance of	c/1961 short stories