First, Sammy interprets the customers as being old, dull and unable to relate to young people. The fist customer he comes across he describes as a “witch about fifty” and a “cash register watcher”. He even notes that it makes her day to see him trip up. It is at this point that he begins to make it evident that he doesn’t particularly care for the customers. In the fifth paragraph he goes on to describe the customers as “sheep

” and “house slaves in pin curlers”. While he describes the general look of shock and disapproval towards the group of young girls he so admires, he is making it evident of the worlds and decades between he and his customers. He describes them as being so banal that even had dynamite been set off they would keep pushing their carts, muttering to themselves. Towards the end of the story when he announces that he is quitting, he goes on to say that “a couple customers that had been heading for my slot begin to knock against each other, like scared pigs in a chute.” While he sees himself as being a risk taker he sees the customers as afraid of confrontation, thereby widening the gap between them. Sammy can’t seem to relate to the customers in any way and thereby shows how his character sees himself as a younger and much more exciting type.

Finally, Sammy’s character is revealed through his analysis of the young girls visiting the shop. He sees the girls as an unusual occurrence in an ordinary place. Their very presence seems to alter the surroundings in the store. Sammy describes the girl leading the others as though her presence is enchanting, saying “With the straps pushed off, there was nothing between the top of the suit and the top of her head except just her, this clean bare plane of the top of her chest down from the shoulder bones like a dented sheet of metal til

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