Imagery in " A & P"

    In "A & P", John Updike uses imagery for character development as it pertaints to the main character, Sammy. More specifically, Updike uses metaphors and similes to let the reader know personallity and maturity of Sammy. The things Sammy describes indirectly characterizes him and gives insight into his motivation for quitting. Similies such  as,  " This clean bare plane of the top of her chest down from the shoulder bones like a dented sheet of metal tilted in the night," that describes a girl's physique, show the reader Sammys focus at that time and indirectly characterizes im as a typical male teenager that only has a mind for girls. Sammy's fascination with the girls is futher notd when her compares looking for them in the store to a pinball macing saying, " The whole store was like a pinball machine and I didn't know which tunnel they'd come out of."
    Updike also devlops Sammy using imagery with metaphors. He uses metaphors to showcase Sammy's personality and characterize him as shallow. For example, he refers to the girls following the leader of the group as, "sheep pushing their carts down the aisle" . Sammy even uses metaphors to describe one girls body reffering to it as " the two smoothest scoops of vanilla".
    Updike's use of imagery characterzes Sammy that contributes to the tone of the story, and it gives insight into what his motivation was for quitting his job. How does everyone else feel imagery contributed to this piece?