An Analysis of John Updike’s Short Story A & P (5035 words, 7 pages)
John Updike's best known, most anthologized and most frequently taught short story, "A P," first appeared in The New Yorker (22 July 1961 22-24), a publication that assumes a reader with considerable literary and cultural knowledge. Updike, for whom literature and art have been intertwined since youth,1 uses allusions to ...
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