A & P - John Updike :: essays research papers

A & P takes place in a community inland that is sandy, yet arise the coast. It starts out in the supermarket in which three girls in bathing suits walk in. One of these girls catches the eye of Sammy, which is working at the supermarket, Queenie. The whizz 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 scantily under it, where the sun never seems to hit, at the top of the backs of her legs. Sammy sees these girls and wants to be like them, free in a sense. As time goes on the girls finally micturate what they wanted and decided to check-out. They make there way to Sammys register where there comes Sammys manager, Lengel, to complain to the girls about their dress attire.     Sammys feelings for Queenie changes when he hears her give tongue to. Her voice is expression and he has built this romantic image of her in his mind. Hearin g her voice and realizing she is a normal person, (that happens to be wealthy) slightly changes his feelings for her. It brings him back to reality a little. Her voice kind of startled me, the way voices do when you see the people first, coming out so flat and dumb yet kind of tony, too, the way it ticked everywhere "pick up" and "snacks." All of a sudden I slid right down her voice into her living room. Sammy feels as if he has no chance to complicate observationd by her unless he does something out of the ordinary. So after she is done arguing with Lengel, Sammy decides to stand up for her and quit his job in hopes that she will notice him.The girls, and whod blame them, are in a hurry to get out, so I say "I quit" to Lengel quick enough for them to hear, hoping theyll stop and control me, their unsuspected hero. They keep right on going, into the electric eye the door flies open and they flicker across the lot to their car, Queenie and Plaid and Big t all Goony-Goony (not that as raw material she was so bad), leaving me with Lengel and a kink in his eyebrow.As this is happening Sammy starts to see the stupidity of what he just did, entirely still quits since he already stated it he might as well do it.