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A&P

A&P


I thought the A&P was a pretty good story. It took me back to the way I used to feel about my summer job a couple of summers ago. In this story you can see that Sammy was sick of his job and was either going to get fired or quit. He eventually quit before he got fired on the spare of the moment trying to impress the girls which two of them he put down the whole story
In this story Sammy is like a male chauvinist. It doesn’t seem like he has much respect for all women because he had funny nicknames for all of the girls just about as soon as the entered the A&P. The first was nicknamed Plaid “a chunky kid, with a good tan and a sweet broad soft-looking can.” The second girl he nicknamed Big Tall Goony-Goony. She was described as “one of those chubby berry-faces, a tall girl, and a chin that was too long....

Posted by: Tricia F. Doyle

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