... conformity, and Sammy's odd ability to find beauty in these outcasted girls as they travel through the grocery store. These aspects of the middle of this story are "something crucial within life that is illumined as nowhere else, put on radiant, consequential display"." The youth of the girls threaten the people of the town, making them uncomfortable and but also makes ... look at eachother much anyway, and another in the cool A&P, under the flourescent lights, against all those stacked packages, with her feet paddling along naked over our checkerboard green-and-cream rubber-tile floor ...

• Word Count: 2200
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School