The story A & P theme is that people should live by the social expectations of life. In this story Sammy faces the conflict of his personal morals and the proper work ethic that he should maintain at the A & P. The conflict is important in this story in understanding the theme.
             The conflict is simply that Sammy feels that morally his boss (Lengel) is embarrassing the girls and being rude to them. On the other hand Sammy has to maintain his work ethic. So the conflict in this story is Sammy's personal morals versus his Proper work ethic. This conflict begins when his boss embarrasses the girls repeatedly at the A & P. Lengel makes comments to the girls like "Girls this isn't the beach". Sammy feels that Lengel is acting immoral by treating the girls this way. Sammy has to maintain his proper work ethic, so he can say much to defend the girls. After the girls where done paying for their purchase they hurried out of the store, because they are embarrassed by Lengel's comments. Sammy has been caught in the middle of the conflict between Lengel and the girls. Sammy's way of reacting to this situation is he quits his job at the A & P.
             "The girls, and who'd blame them where in a hurry to get out, so I say 'I quit' to Lengel quick enough for them to hear, hoping that they will stop and watch me their unsuspected hero." Sammy stood up for the girls they only way that he knew how by quitting his job. His morals took over his work ethic and he quit.
             The theme of this story is that people should live by Social expectations of life is intended in this story, because right after Sammy quit his job he already started to doubt what he had just done. When Lengel said "Sammy you don't want to do this to your parents." Sammy agreed that, but since he had already quit he followed through with his actions. Sammy had to deal with a lot of things now that h
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