Often, different generations hold different values. This is quite apparent in my own family. My grandma has been staying with us for the past two months, and she definitely noticed the different electronics in the house. My mom and I both have a smart phone, while my grandma has a flip phone. She is amazed on how far technology has come, compared to when she was a little girl. All she had to play with was limited toys, and her imagination. She often tells me stories of when she was little, and it amazes me, as well, on how different it was then compared to now. We find this generational divide in values in two works of fiction in particular: "A & P" by John Updike and "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" by Ernest Hemingway. In these stories, we encounter characters who appear symbolic of entire generations. Both their behavior and their thought processes are indicative of their life stages.…show more content… According to Debra Shostack, John Updike studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art for a year after Harvard. After that year, Katharine White, which was the fiction editor for The New Yorker, offered Updike a staff position at the magazine. He worked there for two years, which then he ultimately quit in 1957. "Updike's career spanned for more than fifty years and sixty books. ... He published twenty-four novels, a play, a memoir, children's books, numerous collections of poetry, short stories and essays and criticism" (Shostack). One of Updike's influences was Ernest Hemingway, the author of "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place". Finally, in 1961, John Updike wrote the short story "A & P"
