... the girls have interrupted their day-to-day routine. Even the store itself illuminated their youth: "You know it's one thing to have a girl in a bathing suit down on the beach, where what with the glare nobody can 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 ... walking against the usual traffic " pattern " (Russell). Sammy's desire to break away from conformity is also "illumined " when he begins to find humor in Lengel repeating "But this isn't the beach " (Updike) to the girls. Now...

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... on, walk in. As Sammy is attempting to ring up their purchase, Mr. Lengel, the manager of the A&P, walks up to the girls to inform them that this isn't the beach and they are improperly dressed to be shopping in this store. They are asked to dress decently the next time they come in. Noticing one of the girls blushing, Sammy ... founded over 142 years ago, and still strives for survival today (Patton par.2), is the setting for this short story. A town north of Boston, located about five miles from the beach, conceals the grocery store between "two banks, the Congregational church and th...

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... keep reaching and checking oatmeal off their lists ( )- Added to the controversy of the three young girls in swimsuits, it is even more extraordinary due to the fact that the beach is 5 miles away from the town. And above that, the A&P is in the middle of the town. "Women generally put on a shirt or shorts or something before they get out ... that this is not true, and that he is just trying to justify it to himself. The Manager, a man with traditional values begins to chastise the girls "This isn't the beach (470)."" For the first time in the story "Queenie- speaks, "My mother asked me...

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... first view of Mr. Lengel, therefore, shows him engaged in hard, manual labor as opposed to the frivolous activity of the girls. Lengel's remark to the girls -- "This isn't the beach" -- reinforces this. Sammy observes that the way Lengel insistently repeats this remark seems "as if it had occurred to him, and he had been thinking all these years the A & P was ... Lengel shows towards their appearance in swimsuits. This is shown when he offers us a description of the A & P's location. Sammy states that A & P is in the middle of town, miles from any beach, and where "the women generally p...

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... the policies of the store. The next plot begins when Lengel, notices the girls as they go to the register and he comes over and says, "Girls, this isn't the beach."(Updike 17). Lengel is obliged to see the girls because he is the manager of the store. He feels he should confront them because his values and his position are ... ...

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... rejection of Lengel's ideas (McFarland 323). While the girls are walking through the store, Sammy comments, "You know, it's one thing to have a girl in a bathing suit down on the beach, where what with the glare nobody can look at each other much anyway, and another thing in the cool of the A & P, under the fluorescent lights, against all those stacked packages ... ...

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... social stature from only hearing her voice. When Lengel scolds the girls for being in the store in their bathing suits Sammy picks up on his repeating, "this ain't the beach." He imagines that Lengel is repeating this because "he had been thinking all these years the A & P was a great big sand dune and he was the head lifeguard," (346). Further, Sammy ... ...

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... blithely unconventional; she is a challenge to the status quo. When Sammy sees the girls he comments "You know it's one thing to have a girl in a bathing suit down on the beach. Where . . . nobody can look at each other much anyway, and another thing in the cool of the A&P under the fluorescent lights . . . Sammy says nothing to indicate that he disagrees with ... ...

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