"A & P"

“A & P” was written in a man’s prospective, the female role in this short story was little to almost none at all. The most reaction you have with the females that it was describing was when two of them had small lines at the end of the story. This story just picked apart at these three female character physical and social status which had to be assumed just by looking at them. In all honesty this story just capitalizes on what men do still to this day and this was written almost 50 years ago so it’s a little sad this mentality hasn't changed. From the instant the women walked in the cashier couldn't function while he was doing his job he just watched them and was day dreaming about them and what their lives were like. At the end the cashier who watched these females all through the store helps them at the register which he was like any other guy or at least how I pictured it. His manager then wakes over there and rudely embarrasses them by bringing attention to the fact that they were in bathing suits which was rude on his part. The cashier was trying to stick up for these females who were just embarrassed but he did it not to necessarily stick up for them but to make himself look like the hero in their eyes but his plan backfired because they already left so he had to go through with it anyways. So he did try to redeem himself from horribly judging them but still for the wrong reasons. This entire story was straight from a man’s head and still today this is what goes on which is not okay.