John Updike and Kurt Vonnegut both weave social commentary into their short stories. In "A&P," Updike focuses on the dehumanizing elements of menial jobs such as the bag-boy job occupied by the story's protagonist Sammy. Sammy is coming of age; he has finished high school and is taking his first st...

Harrison Bergeron In the short story "Harrison Bergeron," by Kurt Vonnegut, the characters are all made equal. In this story there are many good examples of why nobody should be exactly alike. The government tries to get everyone to be the same inequality and they succeed. I thin...