John Updike: A&P

The setting of the story is at an A&P grocery store in Massachussetts. A Dad quits the A&P store he works at to take a stand against the treatment of customers that he liked and enjoyed having as he rung up herring. His two parents best friends with the owner of the store,..he rebels and folds up his apron that says his name "Sammy," on it. The A&P store located in Boston, Massachusettes near the carribean. Sammy gets out of the store and looks for Queenie and her two tag alongs who had bought herring for the guys probably back at home but he cannot find them. One girl was chubby wearing a two piece green bathing suit and Queenie wore a pink-beige suit with no straps that the owner complained about.