Sammy didn't notice the three girls until they were near the bread and he begins comparing the thighs of the first girl he saw to crescents of white. The first contrast comes almost immediately as he is brought back to the task at hand which is waiting on a fifty-year-old woman, with whom he is irritated for causing him to stop looking at the girls. He blames her for

It wasn't until he had been left behind that he realized he had crossed a line of some kind. He felt his own power to make a stand. He had crossed the line between a young man and a man. He realized too late however, that the rewards were not worth the price he had paid. I am sure he still had visions of the girls at the beach sitting on lawn chairs laughing with their families, until he noticed the lawn chairs stacked on the pavement outside the store. He realized that life would be full of hard choices from that time forward.

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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

Some common words found in the essay are:
Updike's A&P, A&P John, a&p john, crossed line, lawn chairs, fifty-year-old woman, cash register, quit job, bathing suits, prima-donna legs, crescents white,
Approximate Word count = 659
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)