A & P
Do you remember when you realized that the whole world did not eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and jump off the swing into the sandbox? There is a point in every child’s life where the spell of youth is broken and the harsh, devil-may-care views of mature existence are revealed. In the short story “A & P” a boy goes through a coming-of-age of sort, and sees society as it exists from an adult viewpoint. Sammy works in a grocery store: The A & P. A grocery store is an establishment of explicit order and organization, a bustling center where everything, even herring snacks, has its own section or aisle. The only chaos that inhabits a grocery store is that one unruly wheel on your shopping cart. As shoppers walk under that electric eye in the door, the chilling produce air and elevator music consumes them and immediately they kick into grocery mode. After grabbing a cart, they join the herd of sheep already shopping in the store. Sammy spends the majority of his days in this fluorescent-lit wonderland watching the sheep roll by. Sammy works in a grocery store: The A & P. A grocery store is an establishment of explicit order and organization, a bustling center where everything, even herring snacks, has its own section
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Approximate Word count = 1051
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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