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The manager Lengel does not seem to be too strict at first but has his ways I feel. Reading the story in first person we see the day in the life at work through Sammy’s eyes. He sees three girls come into the grocery story with only swim suites on. He nick names theses girls as “plaid, big tall goon goony, and queenie.” These names come to him I feel as the way that he sees the girls and how they carry themselves. Sammy keeps his eyes on them while they are shopping and in my eyes I feel that his way of watching over them.
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"A & P" written by John Updike tells the story of three adolescent girls, casually strolling through a grocery store wearing only swimsuits. Sammy is a young man who happens to work in the store and is very observant. He pays close attention to the three girls. He focuses on the most attractive of the three, the one who appears to be the leader and gives her a nickname, "Queenie". The girls' attire and the fact that they seemed to be aimlessly wandering about the grocery store only brought more attention to themselves, especially since the beach was about five miles away.
This defines just who Sammy is, and everything the development of Sammy revolves around. Sammy, just as the other male employees do, spends his time watching the girls as they shop around the story for the food one of their mom's has sent them in for. However just as they are about to check about Lengel, the manager, comes into the story.
She doesn't have much money but then she turns around and sees some fish and a sign that says BETTA FISH $3.99. She bought Sammy and some food and goes back home and watches Sammy swim around in his bowl. As she goes down stairs the phone
Of all the patrons in the grocery store, the girls were the only ones in bathing suits and so, the girls stand out and draw attention to them. Sammy takes notice of the girls by thinking about Queenie, “what got me, the straps were down” (734), not a common sight for a grocery store. Sammie mentions the looks the girls receive from other patrons by mentioning “you could see them, when Queenie’s white shoulders dawned on them, kind of jerk, or hop, or hiccup, but their eyes snapped back to their baskets and on they pushed” (735). The looks given the girls by patrons lend importance to the role of the setting of “A&P”