In the short story "Soldier's Home," by Ernest Hemingway, Kreb's rejection of his community's values can be related to Sammy's relationship to his supermarket job in John Updike's "A & P." Even though the two stories are different in style, one story being more serious and gloomy and the other being more humorous and sarcastic, they both reveal two similar settings, which the main characters reject. Both authors use precise and detailed examples of how each style and setting are portrayed. Hemingway presents a style in "Soldier's Home", that is emotionless and serious, while Updike gives readers a youthful almost comic style of story in "A& P." To begin with, Hemingway uses the name Krebs all through the story; he never lets readers become personal or emotional to Kreb's. Where in "A&P" Updike lets readers see through the eyes of a nineteen year old boy, Sammy, who is sarcastic and also humorous. One occasion where we see this adolescent humor is when Sammy says, "She was a ch!
             unky kid, with a good tan, and a sweet broad soft-looking can, with these two crescents of white just under it, where the sun never seems to hit, at the top of the backs of her legs" (480). Comments about the girls like this one gives Updike's "A&P" a youthful humor for readers to enjoy. Another example of this is when Sammy thinks to himself, "She did not look around, not this queen, she just walked straight on slowly, on these long white prema-donna legs" (481). Statements like this gives readers comic relief and throughout the rest of the story he refers to this leader of the girls as Queenie. An example of when Sammy refers to her is when he says, "Queenie blushes, though maybe it's Hayes 2 maybe just a brush of sunburn I was noticing for the first time, now that she was so close" (483). There is no light-hearted or uplifting thoughts given from Krebs in "Soldier's Home" just serious, cold, not so happy statements for example, "Krebs acquired the nausea i...