Download. Analysis. Views. 2465. In A amp P by John Updike, the story of a young man's failed efforts at heroism is told along with the fact that he made a bad decision in the situation. Sammy, an assumed young teenager in the story, works as a cashier in A amp P, a supermarket that caters to the different needs of, John Updike's short story "A amp P" is a first-person narration about a day at the supermarket . . The narrator, Sammy, is a young boy who works at the cash register at the A & P. One day, three beautiful girls, dressed only in swimsuits, enter the supermarket, and Sammy begins to observe them and imagine what that these girls have in mind.