A&P
...turned away, looking out the front opening of the barn where hay was thrown from a wagon into the loft. The two pink-speckled hillsides lay back against a dark ridge of woods. The sky was cloudless and cold blue.” Hulga never has let anyone touch her artificial leg. “No one ever touched it but her. She took care of it as someone else would his soul, in private...” Manley asked Hulga if he could see where her artificial leg joined on and if he could take it off. Hulga let him take it off and this was the first time that she has ever felt dependent on someone else. “Without the leg she felt entirely dependent on him.” For once in her life she let herself be able to trust someone and that was Manley. “...it was like surrendering to him completely. It was like losing her own life and finding it again, miraculously, in his.” Sammy becomes attracted to the three girls who walk into the grocery store in bathing suits. Sammy is a youngster which can be pointed out by the first sentence. “In walks these three girls in nothing but bathing suits. I’m in the third checkout slot, with my back to the door, so I don’t see them until they’re over by the bread.” He is so distracted by these three girls that walk in wearing bathing suits. Sammy goes from an immature boy to a man that can make choices but doesn’t actually think about how it is going to affect him in the long run. Also, the girls trigger an action that is irreversible, leaving Sammy with the painful knowledge of “how hard the world was going to be to me hereafter.” First, Sammy interprets the customers as being old, dull and unable to relate to young people. The fist customer he comes across he describes as a “witch about fifty” and a “cash register watcher”. He even notes that it makes his day to see them trip. It is at this point that he begins to make ...