A & P

He describes the first girl he sees walking in the store as “a chunky kid, with a good tan and a sweet broad soft-looking can with those two crescents of white just under it…” (421). Although the comment was kept to himself, in mind it is a sexist comment. Though the girl was in a bathing suit and there was no beach

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around, she probably wasn’t trying to get the attention of young guys. His thoughts of the girls are distasteful and degrading towards them. He notices not only what they’re wearing, but what the little clothing that they have on covers up. With this quote, he is describing how the bathing suit was slipping off the girl, but in a more demeaning manner. The idea of his precession of calling the girls by what they look like makes him a pig. He doesn’t see that she’s a human, but just a plaything. Sammy seems to be more of a sexist pig, as the reader proceeds through the story and realize how horny and perverted he can be. One other quotes or thought that Sammy has while these girls that are remain nameless throughout the story, is when the one he calls Queeny takes her money from “the hollow at the center of her nubbled pink top” (423). Describing the girl’s “can” (421), meaning her backside, gives Sammy some credit of being a sexist pig. “With the straps pushed off, there was nothing between the top of the suit and top of her head except just her…”(421). She was just there to “pick up a jar of herring snacks” (423).

In conclusion, Sammy is a sexist pig. Maybe he realized that since he didn’t know them that they weren’t going to hang around for him, or maybe he realized that no girl would want to hang out with a sexist pig. ”This clean bare plane of the top of her chest down from the shoulder bones like a dented sheet of metal tilted in the light” (421).

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Approximate Word count = 490
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

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