A & P Have you ever disliked a job? The main character in the story is a 19-year-old boy named Sammy working behind the register of the convenient store; which hates his job. The story A & P is written by John Updike. The story takes place in a small grocery store in the middle of a minute town, five miles from the beach. The town is so small that it can be seen in whole from …showed first 75 words of 1166 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1166 total…my the slot, checking the sheep (customers) through. His face was dark and gray and his back stiff, as if he’d just had an injection of iron, and my stomach kind of felt as I felt how hard the world was going to be to me hereafter.” (94). He hated his job and this was the only way to rectify it. In my opinion, quitting his job was the best thing he could have done.