A and P

A and P by John Updike was an interesting read. I had to read it twice to really understand some level of significance the story had. I think a huge part oof the story was the time period it was set in, and things would be largely different, were it set at a more recent time. My guess is that it is set around the mid 50's. It was a scandoulus thoguht for three teenage girls dressed in bathing suits, without shoes to be walking threw a family grocery store. Out of the girls, there is an obvious leader of the bunch, a queen bee, walking around sporting a beige ruffled suit, with the straps off, exposing her white skin. She walked around the store, strutting her long white "primadonna legs."
The cashier narrorating the story had an obsession with these girls, and followed their every move, the way they walked, the way they strutted throguh the store picking up different items and then placing them down. The way that the leader walked hard on her feet, as if not used to walking without shoes. The queen bee dissapointed me when confronted with the store owner, I had expected her to stand up for herself and her follwers. Instead, she decided to shyly respond in a quiet voice, and get rather embarassed, blushing at the act of being caught. When Sammy quit I thought it was slight over kill. He quit to impress the three girls, when in fact they hadnt even noticed him or his actions. They were set in a world of their own.