I found the story powder very intriguing. The author kept you enchanted with
             the character of his father, yet disenchanted with his own character. The authors father
             was a cool impractical father he drove a sports car, took risks such as driven through
             unplowed snow covered roads and went down hill sking for fun. Unlike my father who
             drives a compact car, doesen't like drving at night let alone in snow and goes antique
             shopping for fun. Yet the author lives a very practical life with his clothes carefully
             hung on numbered racks so the would be properally rotated. So I was intrigued by the
             father and life that he lived on the edge, but not the son and his sheltered life.
             Even though i didn't like the authors charcter as a person in the story,
             I did however like his use of the first person, because it kept you intouch with
             The story A & P however did not captivate me. The hero in the story, Sammy,
             was no hero in my book only a pathetic fool who lived in an uneventfull town that was
             resistant to change. When Sammy was working in the local grocery store he noticed a
             beautiful girl walk in with 2 of her friends. Although she only walked into the grocery
             store to buy one small item for her mother, Sammy took as if she was walking right into
             his life. She was much more than just another pretty face to Sammy to him she was a
             godess. Since Sammy never knew her name he refered to her as Queenie because she
             was of royal status to him. He held her high above himself and everyone he knew, he
             even imagined her family to be of a higher class of people, from a 49 cent snack she was
             purchasing. When his boss confronted Queenie of her atire the matter was resolved
             quickly between her and the boss, but not to Sammy he felt that she was a dan
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