Throughout the journey of life, people encounter many paths from which they must choose. Whether or not the most appropriate path is chosen, one will still face hardships. After all, life is about challenge. Both Sammy and Eveline have to make in portant decisions that will affect their future lives. Although it seems that Sammy hastily quit his job, the story also implies that Sammy found his job and the customers monotonous and irritating. “I stood there with my hand on a box of HiH o Crackers trying to remember if I rank it up or not.
I ring it up again and the customer starts giving me hell. She’s one of these cash-register-watchers, a witch about fifty with rouge on her cheekbones and no eyebrows, and I know it made her day to trip me up. She’d been watching cash registers for fifty years and probably never seen a mistake before” (Updike 296).
Although Sammy later regrets his decision to quit his job, he has now gained an important aspect of life. He can learn from his mistakes. Both Sammy and Eveline have had this opportunity.
If Eveline had left home, She would have had feelings of discontent in her new life. She felt obligated to care for her family, and she had promised her mother that she would keep the home together as long as she could. because she stayed at home, she will probably always wonder what her new life with Frank would have been like. No matter the path taken, one will always wonder what life would have held had the circumstances been different. I have often asked myself this very question. After much thought, I realize that had I chosen different paths, I would have still had trials in my life and the things I hold most dear would probably be nonexistent.
The Essay on Why Does Sammy Quit His Job?
In the short story “A&P”, the character Sammy quits his job for a few different reasons. In the podcast professor Higgins suggest that she quits for two different reasons. Sammy wants to impress the girls. The other reason was because; Sammy mentions that once you make a decision it is fatal not to go back on it. I agree with both reasoning’s. I also agree with both professors that it is a ...
“Two roads diverged in a wood and I-I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference” (Frost 91).
