Sometimes reality can be distorted by an intrapersonal conflict. The story “A&P” written by John Updike, illustrates how our perspective of a situation can be rearranged and become the opposite reality of what was originally perceived. “A&P” tells the story of a boy who works at a grocery store. One day some girls come in wearing only bikinis, he becomes very interested in everything these girls do. The people at the store are giving these girls dirty looks while the grocery boy is thinking in his mind that these are the sweetest girls he has ever seen. His manager comes out to tell the girls that they are doing something wrong and that he would like them to leave. As the girls are leaving the boy tells his manager that he quits, in hopes that the girls would see him quitting and he would become there hero. When the boy finally reaches the parking lot to see the girls he saved they were gone. He then realizes that when he did what he did he was not thinking with his full capabilities. If the boy had not been so wrapped up in these half naked women he would have been able to handle the situation in a more professional manner.

The girls reach the meat counter and the guy working over there is kind of sizing up with the ladies. The main character gets jealous “All that was left for us to see was old McMahon patting his mouth and looking after them sizing up their joints. Poor kids, I began to feel sorry for them, They couldn’t help it. The main character sympathizes with these girls that he has never met.

t the very beginning of the story. “In walks these three girls in nothing but bathing suits.” So first of he notices they were people of the opposite sex and secondly he notices they were only wearing bathing suits. “The one that caught my eye first was the one in the plaid green two-piece.” A two piece bathing suit reveals more skin then most one piece bathing suit. While he is watching the girls he was also trying to ring up an old lady. “She’s one of those cash-register-watchers, a witch about fifty with rouge on her cheekbones and no eyebrows, and I know it made here day to trip me up.” Ok so this guy is checking out some girls and rings something up twice and he gets mad at the lady because she started giving him attitude about ringing up something twice. From the ladies perspective she just w

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