Does lust lead to hardship and emptiness? In this article (do you mean "this article" or "A&P" by John Updike?) Sammy has a sexual appetite that causes him problems. His adoration of a woman's body (pay attention to the placement of the possessive apostrophe) makes him lose his values ​​and focus only on one value. This value is the lustful pleasure he feels when he sees three girls in their skimpy swimsuits. The pleasure he receives outweighs the consequence of the emptiness he finally feels after defending those girls and they don't respond to his pleasure. feelings. Updike in his short story "A&P" uses characterization to illustrate that heroism based on animalistic sexual appetite, which objectifies women, will lead to a harsh and unsuccessful life. Updike uses Sammy's characterization to illustrate that animalistic sexual appetite objectifies women. Sammy describes Queenie in a sexual way when he describes (try to avoid using the same word twice in a single sentence; try a synonym: to find synonyms there is a nice webcite thesaurus from Merrium Webster at www.mw.com; also note that here you have moved from the present to the past; when you write about works of art you normally stay in the present the whole time) Queenie's body and bathing suit. It says (missing correct punctuation after saying; if you kept Holt's manual you should be able to look up punctuation with quotation marks) "With the straps off, there was nothing between the top of the suit and the top of the his head except her, this bare, clean plane of the upper chest that descends from the shoulder bones like a dented sheet of metal tilted to the light" (13). (don't forget that MLA style requires putting the page number of each quote in parentheses immediately after each quote) Sammy describes it as more than cute. His sexual appetite is oriented not to see these three girls as people but as objects. Sammy sees these women as icons to be desired, just like in an Eastern Orthodox church where they have icons of Jesus and Mary that you can have as objects to focus on and worship. Sammy is in effect using these women as objects to desire and therefore worship human sexuality. He sees these women as objects of pleasure thus fueling his animalistic sexual appetite. (I have a couple of comments on the previous passage, which I colored blue.