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The article discusses the teaching of John Updike's short story "A & P" that emphasizes the actions of Sammy, a supermarket cashier, which provides practice in reading for multiple meanings that treat issues of class and gender issues to the junior college students in the U.S. It was stated that "A & P supported multiple readings in an ideal teach students about postmodern strategies for reading. However, students understand a complex sense of reading by evaluating Sammy's actions from a personal perspective in a short class writing.