... so focused on the girls entering the store totally disregarded what he was ringing up. Sammy seems to be focused on everything but he's actually supposed to be doing. He goes on by saying he watched the girls in the meat aisle "I watched them all the way." You can imagine him looking at their backsides while the girls were walking down ... suits." Noticing nothing else about them. While there walking by he describes something by each girl, one had "lips all bunched together under her nose " "these long white prima donna legs." He looks deeply at each characteristic of the girls. You can...

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• Grade Level: High School

... her (468)."" However the third girl is seen in a very different light, she is referred to as "The Queen."" Sammy goes on to say "She kind of led them ( ) she just walked straight on slowly, on these long prima-donna legs (469)."" The reader can deduct that she is the leader of the three, the domineering one. She is the tall, pretty ... their presence. The girls are unique to the interior and contents of the store. Updike contrasts them to the dull "checker-board green and cream-rubber-tile floor (469)."" And goes on to say, "The sheep pushing their carts down the aisle-the girls were wa...

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• Grade Level: High School

... how the girls embarrassment at the hands of the manager makes him feel "scrunchy (para 31)" inside and by referring to himself as their "unsuspected hero (para 22)" after he goes through with his "gesture (para 31)." Upon closer scrutiny, it does not seem believable that Sammy would have quit his job in defense of girls whom he clearly despises, despite ... out the quick judgment that Sammy makes about her personality and social status, even though there is no real evidence of its accuracy. From the description of her "prima donna legs (para 2)", To his imagery of her teaching her frien...

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• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

In the short story "A & P- by John Updike the main character goes through a transition from adolescence into adulthood. Throughout this story, one perceives Sammy's transition of the recognition of his own adolescence into the world of adulthood, where he begins to take ... their way through the store, Sammy cannot keep his attention focused on his job because he continually watches as Queenie "walk[s] straight on slowly, on these long white prima-donna legs- (344). Sammy takes a look at his life and current situation, and from where he stands at this moment, he does not have a high opinion ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School