A&P

From the first line of the story he is infatuated with the three girls because they walked in the store wearing, “nothing but bathing suits.”(pg.224, paragraph one, line one.) My original assumption after finishing the first paragraph is that he is going to ask the chunky girl, “with a good tan and a sweet broad soft-looking can” out.(pg.224, paragraph one, line four.) I came to that conclusion because he stopped checking his groceries and stared but as he went on to talk about the other two; I realized he liked certain qualities of all three of the girls. He seemed to enjoy whenever they would come in throughout the summer and then it came to a head when the manager saw them in only their bathing suits. He says, “We want you decently dressed when you come in here.”(pg.227, paragraph seventeen, line two.) He didn’t feel it was appropriate for them to be in there dressed in only their bathing suits. When Sammy realizes he isn’t going to get to see the girls anymore he tries to stick up for them by quitting his job but it is too late because they have already left so they don’t even realize that he had done that sticking up for them.