John Updike's "A&P"

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This paper takes a look at the short story 'A&P' by John Updike. According to the paper, this story is is a retelling of James Joyce's 'Araby'. The paper discusses the similarities between the two works.

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"Or perhaps Updike is reflecting literarily on the sexual revolution that went on in the 1960s - rock and roll, drugs, anti-war protests and other seeming violations of what until then were considered the accepted norms in American life. Indeed, could Updike's point have been that there were value wars going on in America between an older generation who, in the 1960s, displayed bumper stickers that read, "America: Love it or Leave it!" - and those who wore buttons reading "Peace & Love" and attended psychedelic light show concerts where pot was passed around as casually as the collection plate at a Sunday church service?"

Sample of Sources Used:

• Updike, John. "A&P." The Early Stories: 1953-1975. New York: Random House, 2003.
• Wells, Walter. "John Updike's 'A&P': a return visit to Araby." Studies in Short Fiction 30.2 (1993): 127-134.

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