A & P

The story A&P by John Updike at first made me really confused about where this story was taking us. For the first couple pages he was just explaining the characters and I didnt understand why? John used alot of descriptive word choices when explaing what the three girls looked like and was wearing for example, "There was a chunky one, with the two piece" and "kinda of dirty-pink...bathing suit with little nubble all over it, and what got me was the straps were down." It made me have a really descriptive overview of the girls. When Lengel told the girls that they coudnt be in A&P with just there swimming suites they got kind of mad, and almost embarressed. But i personaly think that he was doing the right thing. Almost every store has no shirt no shoes no service. So it wasnt like it was somthing random and he only forced the rule on them. He must do it to everyone. But the thing that i dont get is why Sammy quit working and pretty much walked out. He really had no reason, because the girls payed no attention to him anyways. I could maybe see if the girls were flirting with him, but they werent. He kinda had a reason when he said "You didn't have to embarrass them." He must of been sticking up for his age group and what he thought was right. My over all thought of the story is that it was okay, and has a good point of sticking up what you think is right as a individual.