Sammy, a young cashier at the local A&P store in John Updike's short story, is a character we see as someone who is constantly evolving and has a deep level of subconscious thoughts and feelings. Sammy is well aware of his surroundings and the process of human nature, as people-watching is what he does most of his time. Over the course of the story we begin to see that Sammy has a subconscious disrespect for authority and hypocrisy. Sammy is the cashier at the store, has been for some time now, long enough to have memorized “fists, 4, 9, GROC, TOT” ( 602 ) and created a song for himself ““Hello ( bing) there, you (gung) hap-py pee-pul (splat)"” ( 602 ). Demonstrating his contempt for conformity and consumerism in the daily life of the store, Sammy joins the shoppers or, as he calls them, the "sheep" (600) of the store, who can never break away from the spell of their routine daily. The location and layout of the store is also tediously described by Sammy when he describes to readers his surroundings “among the crates and special containers” ( 599 ). He also does this when he describes the girls going up and down the isles of objects "dog and cat food-breakfast-cereals-macaroni-rice-raisins-condiments-spreads-spaghetti-soft drinks-crackers-and-aisle of cookies” ( 600 ). With all these tedious descriptions of the details of Sammy's surroundings, we slowly begin to see him become more and more frustrated and upset by the conformity of the society he lives in and the difficulty of breaking the social formalities he faces on a regular basis. daily. Not only does the shop description show Sammy's disgust for American conformity, but... middle of paper... for the onformist world. Acting as the invisible government, Lengel had chased the girls away, but not without Superman, Sammy, saving the innocent civilians, the girls. Sammy's subconscious disrespect for authority and hypocrisy now becomes a reality for him. His desires to break out of the lower class are acknowledged by Lengel when he says "you don't want to do this to your mother and father." (603). With this Sammy is attempting what we all wish we could do in our lives and move from one class to another, breaking the hypocrisy that rules our world and binds us with chains to the lives we were born into. Thanks to the power given to Sammy by the girls who bravely entered his life, Sammy now leaves the store a man free from the conformism he has lived in, but at the same time a poor man for trying to make something of himself and achieve something. his dreams.