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A&P seems to stay true. Thus meaning that the story doesnt fluctuate much and doesnt sound like a tall tell. It gives really superior detail about the girl and the environment surrounding her. One really good example that he use is:
“She had on a kind of dirty-pink — beige maybe, I dont know — bathing suit with a little nubble all over it and, what got me, the straps were down. They were off her shoulders looped loose around the cool tops of her arms, and I guess as a result the suit had slipped a little on her, so all around the top of the cloth there was a shining rim. If it hadnt been there you wouldnt have known there could have been anything whiter than those shoulders. With the straps pushed off, there was nothing between the top of the suit and the top of her head except just her, this clean bare plane of the top of her chest down from the shoulder bones like a dented sheet of metal tilted in the light. I mean, it was more than pretty.”
When I read this it made me feel that John Updike was some sort of a pervert that was stocking this girl young girl. But then I realized that he was a younger male that had superior personification speaking abilities. For example “, this clean bare plane of the top of her chest down from the shoulder bones like a dented sheet of metal tilted in the light. I mean,” But this wasnt his only section that he had used it; he had used it threw out the complete essay. “The whole store was like a pinball machine and I didnt know which tunnel theyd come out.”
He seemed to enjoy writing this piece of work that I feel from what I have read is non-fictional. I think that he pick the ideal descriptions for this snapshot.