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AP1 The short story A & P, a nineteen year old boy who plant life in a small grocery store on the East-Coast, called an A & P. He works in the store as a check out clerk until a warm summer day when three girls wearing besides wearing their bathing suits came into the store to buy herring snacks and sour lap up for one girls mother. All was going well until--the owner of the store enters and puts quite a little the girls for coming in the store in inappropriate attire. In a pointless heroic move to try and win over the girls Sammy discontinue his job to protest the treatment of the girls. This selfless act was in vain, for when he left the store hoping the girls would be there waiting for him, they were gone. Updike has painted a perfect picture of what is in the inner mind of a two-year-old man--SEX. He does this by the detailed description of each of the three girls and a heroic act to save the day. Updikes use of description of the smallest details of the three g irls let the reader know where Sams mind is right in the gutter. In the first paragraph Sams thoughts of the first girl he sees, or as he calls her, Plaid are nothing but analyzing every thread on her body. As Plaid walks into the store Sammy begins to piss a rational description, of oddly enough--her butt, with a good tan and a sweet get on with soft-looking can with those two crescents of white just under it, where the sun neer seems to hit, at the top of the backs of her legs (480). Updike takes on this rule as a devolve on driven nineteen-year-old character very well. Sammy seems to like another quality, They didnt even have shoes on (480). This struck me as odd-at least by todays standards. eyesight girls without shoes is an everyday event. The girl that Sammy is most in awe of is Queenie the attractor of the three girls. Being the leader of the three girls and the most flamboyant may be what attracted Sammy to her what got me, the straps were downoff her shoulde rs looped loose around the cool overstep of her arms (481). Sams only desire was simply sex and this blinded his judgment.