cannot be seen as purely sexist. Sexism, as with most things in life, comes in shades of gray. Generally speaking he holds all of his fellow townspeople in equal disrepute. Men are not spared at the expense of women. Some of Sammy's harshest criticism comes of Lengel, the store manager. In one paragraph he states the Lengel came "in from haggling with a truck full of cabbages on the lot and is about to scuttle into that door marked MANAGER behind which he hides all day..." (483). This comment implies that Sammy sees Lengel as a furtive dullard, capable of arguing with vegetables. He then goes on to refer to Lengel as "pretty dreary" making frequent, disparaging references to Lengel being a repressed Sunday school teacher. Perhaps many of Sammy's critics see him as sexist because the majority of his criticisms are aimed towards women, but in Sammy's line of work, he mainly comes into contact with women, so most of his disparaging comments would quite naturally be construed towards women. Despite his negative comments, none of them refer to wome
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