A & P

John Updike uses a lot of creative language throughout the entire story. Overall, i think the story doesn't really have a super defined point, or focus, but i liked it because of the way he describes things, and because of the way he laid out the story (even though it was a bit confusing). My favorite passage from the story is "all this while the customers had been showing up with their carts but you know, sheep, seeing a scene they had all bunched up on Stokesie" I like this passage because I think it's a funny way to describe the customers from the perspective of the cashier. The reason i think the story is confusing is because of the way the girls are described in the beginning. I thought that they were little kids, but as the story went on and we saw the reactions from the "older" men, i got the feeling that they were just a bit older than i thought. I also think that it's a bit strange the way that John portrayed the guys in the story. There were some parts in that story that I thought were pretty damn creepy (cause i thought the girls were little kids) so I would just like to know why John Updike wrote that in the way he did, and i would also like to clarify some of the sentences like "it just having come from between the two smoothest scoops of vanilla i have ever known were there".