With all respect to the previous two editors, perhaps one
can say that "A & P" has no real "message," but is rather an insightful sketch
of teenage attitudes and behaviors.
The girls seem unaware
of the social norms that they are violating; the boy is moved to an impulsive,
self-destructive act by force of his confused sexual yearnings; throw all this together
with the boy's rebellion against his parents' middle-class values of working hard and
keeping your mouth shut, and you've got a perfect picture of a typical bunch of
teenagers.
Now, I don't mean that there really is no
message. I do mean that there is much to learn from this story without searching for a
"moral."
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