A & P
...not have a tan line, so she must have just bought the bright green, two piece, and bathing suit. He also notices that she is very conscience of being a little over weight, because she fumbled with the cookies, but on second thought she put the packages back (Updike, 15). Sammy describes the next girl as a pretty girl, but not pretty enough to be called beautiful. He puts great detail in describing her appearance, and describes everything about her, from her long, frizzy hair, to her lock neck, and the sunburns underneath her eyes. This girl is the tallest of the three, but he says that while she is the kind of girl that other think is very striking and attractive but never quite makes it (15). The last girl he describes is the one he thinks is the leader of the three girls, and even calls her the queen. Sammy describes her as being a very self-assured girl, who is trying to teach the other girls how to be just like her. He states that she had talked the other two into coming in here with her, and now she was showing them how to do it, walk slow and hold yourself straight. Sammy goes into the greatest detail describing the character. He talks about the color of her bathing suit, how her straps are pulled down, the style of her hair, and the manner in which she walks across the store. Sammy shows how impressed he is with her by saying, the longer her neck was, the more of her there was (15). The theme in this story was individualism vs. conformity. At the beginning of the story Sammy was conformed, he was a proper A & P clerk. In the end he takes mat...