... aware of female appearances, and he describes the matrons he sees daily on his job in terms that are representative of his age group. There is a "witch about fifty with rouge on her cheekbones and no eyebrows- (Updike 211) who screeches when he rings up her purchase twice. The middle-aged customer who gives Sammy hell for ringing up her box ... of crackers twice is in Sammy's quick calculation, about fifty, and a witch of the sort he's learned. He notices the rouge on her cheekbones and no eyebrows but nothing else that might stir him in the direction of sympathy. He blames the customer...

• Word Count: 1750
• Approx Pages: 7

... aware of female appearances, and he describes the matrons he sees daily on his job in terms that are representative of his age group. There is a "witch about fifty with rouge on her cheekbones and no eyebrows- (Updike 211) who screeches when he rings up her purchase twice. The middle-aged customer who gives Sammy hell for ringing up her box ... of crackers twice is in Sammy's quick calculation, about fifty, and a witch of the sort he's learned. He notices the rouge on her cheekbones and no eyebrows but nothing else that might stir him in the direction of sympathy. He blames the customer...

• Word Count: 1705
• Approx Pages: 7

... 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 ... ...

• Word Count: 819
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... distracted by the girls, Sammy rings a box of HiHo crackers twice, infuriating the customer. He describes her as being " One of these cash-register-watchers, a witch of about fifty with rouge on her cheekbones and no eyebrows, and I know it made her day to trip me up," sarcastically conveying his chauvinistic attitude toward women. We learn about Sammy's station in life ... ...

• Word Count: 725
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... girls distracts Sammy and he rings up a box of HiHo crackers twice, infuriating a customer. He describes her as being " One of these cash-register-watchers, a witch of about fifty with rouge on her cheekbones and no eyebrows, and I know it made her day to trip me up," sarcastically conveying his chauvinistic attitude toward women. The majority of negative comments that Sammy ... ...

• Word Count: 911
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... reader anything but babble until about half way through the piece. But, all of a sudden, the person reading A&P is cast right into a supermarket in an era where women wore "high rouge" and no eyebrows and people were listening to the sounds of the Carribean Six in phonographs and riding around in Falcon station wagons. A younger reader would feel sort of like ... ...

• Word Count: 437
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... wax on" (14). Sammy's choice of words in describing adults also portrays his adolescent disregard for authority. He shares, "She's one of these cash-register-watchers, a witch about fifty with rouge on her cheekbones and no eyebrows....if she'd been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem" (12). Sammy describes most of the customers in ... ...

• Word Count: 1410
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School