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A&P is set in a small town grocery store. It centers on Sammy, who is a boy cashier in it, and his attitudes towards the three girls who are scolded by the tore boss for their wearing bathing-suits indecently while shopping in the store. The young hero Sammy everyday works there for the sheep-like and pig like customers, which is his routine of life. When the three girls appear, Sammy’s very excited and anxious to be near them or to be seen by them. What is most important is that Sammy is a young boy who is very sensitive to any new things and any changes. Maybe in Sammy’s mind the three beauties are as queen, and he'll fight for them. It’s nature for him to look for a chance to release himself and break away.

Sammy, the typical androcentrism, is generally modest towards the three girls. His lack of understanding of women behavior, as he begins to puzzle the actions of the three girls. “You never know for sure how girls’ minds work (do you really think it’s a mind in there or just a little buzz like a bee in a glass jar?)” (Literature to Go, 334-335). With this relation, Sammy admits that he's ignorant to the working on the female's mind. From this small addition, it is clear that not only does Sammy not understand women, he does not wish to understand them.

Sammy resents town residents traditional conservative ideas, especially women who contempt of the rules, named“house slave”，Sammy indicates that they are enslaved by society, within the walls of their homes. Their sole purpose in life is to clean the house and feed the men; as such, they clearly envy Queenie. Sammy is more cynical for those customers haggle over every ounce, caustic sarcasm, calls them “cash – register – watchers” or “witch”. Easy getting angry and yellin...

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...ble to appreciate the girl's youth and women's feminine beauty, he believes that knight revival of burden falls on his shoulders, so he offered to resign, bravely in protest.

In the end，after 3 girls left the store，Sammy lost his job，Lost in the heart of the queen, the parents will be because he presume to dismiss the they use all connections to settle good work and felt very sorry and sad. Sammy also at this time for his reckless move remorseful. As Lengel says “ You'll feel this for the rest of your life” （338). He was standing on the street outside the mall, bewildered, he could not help looking back he had worked for the post, seems to have in miss that is regulated by the old society, he but is stable, ease of work. Quit his job, he began to worry about his future，“and my stomach kind of fell as I felt how hard the world was going to be to me hereafter”(338).