A&P

After reading this short story I believe and agree with Updike that this story is a "feminist protest". I say this because the girls went into the store with nothing but bathing suits on and when Lengel see's this and is upset. He says to the girls that the next time they come in that they should be decently dressed and they should have their shoulders covered. One of the girls says that they are decently dressed and this is were I see that this story could be a "feminist protest". Sammy I believe quite because he wanted to get the girls' attention and also he might have agreed with the girls in the fact that they were decently dressed and there was nothing wrong with them going into the store dressed in the manner they were. As far as Sammy's epiphany I believe that happened when he was standing in the parking lot of the store right after he had quite and walked out. He realized that he might have made a mistake because of the way he describes how his stomach kind of fell.