Anything for Women
In John Updike's short story "A&P," the reader meets Sammy, a nineteen-year-old working as a cashier in a market type grocery store. This story takes the reader through a fateful event in Sammy's life, when he quits his job all for the sake of women and their attentions. Sammy makes a foolish mistake when he quits his job, after defending the girls in this story from a condescending comment made by his boss, Lengel.
From the beginning and all throughout the story, it is apparent that Sammy is enthralled completely with these girls who walk into the store. He describes them at length, with every detail he can possibly spit out: "The one that caught my eye first was the one in the plaid green two-piece. She was a chunky kid, with a good tan and a sweet broad soft-looking can with those two crescents of white just under it, where the sun never seems to hit, at the top of the backs of her legs" (Updike 1). "She had sort of oaky hair that the sun and salt had......
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