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POINT OF VIEW IN AandP

This story is written entirely from the perspective of nineteen year old Sammy, a grocery clerk. Updike has created an atmosphere of striking opposites warring with one another throughout the entire story. Sammy is bored and excited at the same time. He has worked in the A&P long enough to have memorized every item that is sold in the aisle directly in front of his cash register as well as what is generally for sale in all the areas of the store. He has worked so long at this store that he even compares food items to the bodies of the young girls in bathing suits.
Sammy didn't notice the three girls until they were near the bread and he begins comparing the thighs of the first girl he ...

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woman as having rouge on her cheekbones and no eyebrows. The young girls are all given nubile qualities, which are described by the character of Sammy using references to food. The first girl to catch his eye is a chunky girl with a sweet can and two crescents of white just underneath it. The second girl is described as having a chubby berry face with her lips all bunched together under her nose. The third girl doesn't get compared to food until she is at the cash register and is obviously the most attractive to Sammy as he describes her as having prima-donna legs.
Sammy has been saved from his normal mundane work day assisting what he calls, "houseslaves" by the appearance of these three girls wearing nothing but bathing suits. He is further astonished that they are barefoot, which is entirely against all social mores of the time. He admires the boldness of the girls, especially the one with the prima-donna legs, who he calls queenie.

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Added: 9/1/2006 06:00:00 AM
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