The answer above may be correct, but I do not think that
this is really what Sammy is thinking. To me, he is not thinking about what he wants to
be in the future or anything like that. When I read this story, I go back to being a
teenager and I know what I would have been thinking in Sammy's place -- I would have
been thinking that maybe I could impress these girls and get one or more of them
interested in me.
I think that teenage boys are (or at
least were in my day) way more interested in the slightest possibility of sex than in
what their future might hold. Because of that, I think that Sammy is being purely
driven by hormones and mental pictures of Queenie, in particular" as his
girlfriend.
My only evidence for this (other than my own
memories) is this line:
The girls, and who'd blame them, are in a hurry
to get out, so I say "I quit" to Lengel quick enough for them to hear, hoping they'll
stop and watch me, their unsuspected
hero.
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