A & P by John Updike The following passage is when Sammie the 19-year-old boy quits his job at the local super market A&P. Sammie is working on a Thursday afternoon and in come 3 girls wearing bathing suites. All three girls are judged in his eyes and he goes into detail about what he sees. The first one is queenie who seems to be the leader of the group of girls. Since all 3 girls are wearing nothing but their bikinis they are asked by the manager Lengel to leave, who comes in from, “haggling with a truck full of cabbages on the lot and is about to scuttle into that door marked MANAGER”(21).They are asked to leave the store and come back when they are dressed. Sammie witness this happening and decided he wants to quit. When he quits he does not want to be like the sheep he calls the costumers or everyone else. Sheep seem to follow one another and stop when one stops and so on. Sammie quits because he wants to impress these girls. He is immature still but then realizes that the girls are not there anymore and he has now stepped into a new world regardless of what his parents and his manager want. Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield The following passage is about Miss Brill and her harsh reality. Miss Brill is an older lady who spends her Sunday afternoons at the park-watching people. There is nothing wrong with watching people but she believes that she somehow impacts their lives or that she is apart of these strangers lives. She has been enjoying her usual Sunday afternoon at the park until she notices a young couple talking about her. The young couple states that they don’t understand why she is even at the park and make fun of her fur. She leaves upset and doesn’t even go get her favorite pastry at the local bakery because she is upset. Miss Brill is a lonely woman who creates fantasies in her mind. The fox fur represents her status in life and her escape in reality because she realizes what her life really is which is in the