Alan Propper

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A P

• Alan Propper
• Marcus Perry

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Brief Overview

• The story takes place in the A P food market.
• Its is told from the point of view of a young
  cashier named Sammy.
• Sammy observes three young ladies in bathing
  suits, with no shoes on, walk into the store to
  shop. This was unusual because the store was not
  near the beach. He describes the appearance of
  the young women.
• Along with the manager, Lengel, being upset at
  the way the ladies were dressed, as the girls
  walked past other customers the other customers
  looked disgusted.
• At the end of the story Lengel embarrasses the
  girls as they are checking out. Sammy decides
  that Lengel actions was unnecessary and decides
  to quit.

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Character Sketch

• Sammy- Cashier
• The three Females in bathing Suits
• Stokesie- Cashier
• McMahon- Meat counter
• Lengel- manager of the store

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Significance Of the Title

• The significance is that Sammy works at the A P
  store during the time of the incident.
• Sammy also decides to quit after said incident.

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Narration

• The narrator is the employee of an A P grocery
  store, and the story is told through his view.
• This allow any reader to understand the frame of
  thought of a nineteen year old male.

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Opening and Closing

• Narrator starts out checking three young ladies
  physical features.
• At the end of the story he is checking out the
  item they purchase. As well as resigning from his
  job.

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Character Transformations

• Sammy goes from infringing on the young girls
  rights, by visually molesting them.
• By the end of the story he is the person standing
  up for their rights.

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Themes/Logic

• Since the grocery store can resemble the world,
  as the girls enter into the store, they are
  automatically being looked at by the rest of the
  world.
• Then as the Manager approaches them and tells
  them their outfits are not socially acceptable
  for the store setting.
• As Sammy quits his job, his becomes an outsider
  because he does not believe in what is socially
  acceptable.

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Symbol

• Grocery Store represents the world.
• Queenie is used as the leader of the three
  girls hence the alpha-female. She also represents
  the dominance women have over young men.
• Lengel represents the strict socially acceptable
  view of the world during that time period.
• He refers to the customers as sheep.

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Allusion

• At the end of the Story a Ford Falcon is mention,
  this gives the time period of the story since the
  Falcon is a post 1950s car.
• Sammy make a reference to 1990 being in the far
  future.
• He also make a reference to Boston stores
  becoming Russian stores. This is a definite sign
  that is during the Cold War.
• The grocery store is a reference to the outside
  world.

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Authors Goal

• The authors goal is to make people realize why
  the social views of the time were seemingly
  conservative based.
• As well as to show that an ordinary person can
  stand up for somebody else's rights, eventually
  changing the accepted social views.

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Personal Thoughts and Views

• Since this book is hard to understand because it
  seems basic and theres not any obvious hidden
  clues to what it is about.
• The story was a representation of how people in
  Russia were suppress to thinking a certain way
  and to step away from it was to be a failure.