Some of Sammy descriptiveness discloses a deep resentment of authority For example he scoffs that the
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"Some of Sammy descriptiveness discloses a deep resentment of authority. For example, he scoffs that the cash-register-watching old lady would have been burned as a witch in Salem had she lived then, yet the reader knows that Sammy begrudges her careful scrutiny as he checks out her groceries because he believes she is trying to trip him up as he is working. More importantly, she is distracting him from watching the three girls. Sammy rancor can be interpreted in a deeper sense when viewed with his interaction with Lengel, the manager of the A&P who oesn miss that much?(457). Behind his bitterness toward the old witch glare and Lengel knowledge of everything that happens in the store lies Sammy fear of becoming a hated atcher?himself when he is older. What he fails to realize is that he is already a watcher, as proved by his keen observations about people around him. Until he overcomes his lack of introspection, Sammy will continue to resent the watchers of the world, unaware that he is guilty of the very thing he despises."
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