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The story of John Updike’s “A&P” is staged at a grocery store. A young guy named Sammy is the main character of the story. Sammy is 18 years old and he is a cashier at A&P. The story is set in a town North of Boston in 1960. Sammy talked about everyone who walked in at A&P. He called all the customers animal names like “the sheep”. This made his time at work pass by quicker by calling some women house slaves in pin curlers or calling some of the other customers sheep or cattle. Sammy was ringing up an old woman, whom he called a witch because she snapped at him for ringing up an item twice. He rang up the item twice because he was distracted. Three young girls wearing nothing but their bathing suits walk in to A&P. He quickly describes them from top to bottom. He describes one of them as ”chunky “ but with a nice can. Another one with a ”chubby berry face” and “her lips all b