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Sammy is a young ignorant boy who made a rash decision. He imagined this romance between him and the young lady. His boss was just following protocol. Society was not the problem.The man made an irrational decision and blamed the consequences on someone else when he realized his mistakes. If this were to happen today the girls would have been thrown out just as well. This has nothing to do with women rights and everything to do with wearing the appropriate clothing to the store.

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I don't think that Sammy should have quit his job. He was making an emotional decision without thinking of the consequences that would follow. The girls where breaking the dress code for the store. He quit his job for three girls that looked like they did't care if they were breaking the policy or not. It looked like Sammy was looking for a reason to quit and when you dig deep enough you can find something to get mad about and then quit. He will more than likely never see those girls ever again and he made a fool of himself and his family by walking out of the store in the middle of the day. He quit a perfectly good job and will most likely not get a job in that town ever again.

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Sammy should not have quit his job just because of what his boss said to those girls. The boss said that it was store policy not to wear that into the store, and the girls were breaking his policy. Therefor Sammy has embarrassed himself and his family by quitting his job, because of a few girls he met, and will probably never see again.

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Yes, Sammy should have at least had a job, but what if he was not sure about quitting his job until just that moment when his boss pushed him over the edge Some people may think about quitting their job but never really do it until that one thing pushes them to really quit. Yes, it would have been smarter to have another job in thought. And maybe it wasn't really for catching the eye of Queenie. Maybe he thought that the boss really was not right for kicking a couple of girls out just because their "shoulders are showing." Maybe he was just sticking up to his morals. Do you maybe agree with me?

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Does anyone really enjoy working at a store? I do not feel that Sammy really wanted to quit his job but more of wanted to impress the girls that walked it by appearing heroic. The boss told the three girls that they could pay this time but to not wear the swimsuits back. Therefore, your point of “it was wrong to kick the three girls out for what they were wearing,” is not a true statement.

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Sammy should not have quit his job at the A&P. Mr. Lengel gets onto the girls for wearing their bathing suits in the store, which is against the store policy. The girls do not care about the store policy because they come from a wealthy family, and they think they can do whatever they want. Sammy shouldn't have stood up for the girls, because they will not thank in return because he is a nobody to them. For standing up for the girls, Sammy gets a bad reputation for himself and his family. "You'll feel this for the rest of your life," Legel says, and "I know this is true, too" (19), but Sammy still goes through with it. After he quits, Sammy walks outside to go talk to the girls, "but they're gone, of course" (19). Sammy's lustful desire towards the girls encouraged himself to quit, which  will affect him the rest of his life.

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Sammy was only trying to help the three girls, because his boss came over and told them they needed to wear cloths. Which back then that probably shouldn't have been a big deal. The only sad part is the girls just drove off never told him thank you or anything. He basically quit his job for nothing, but at the end he tried to prove a point to his boss. Maybe quieting wasn't the best answer but it was at the time when he thought the girls would be out there waiting on him.

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Sammy should not have quit his job. You make an excellent point that quitting a job in a small town would make it quite difficult to find a job elsewhere. He also quit for the wrong reasons and he disappointed his parents. Do you think he did it out of lust for the girls, or possibly to get "revenge" on Mr. Lengel for getting on to them?

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Rules are there for a reason, and if they are not enforced for a trio of pretty girls, then they are useless and therefore do not need to be followed by the rest of the populace. Lengel was, in a way, helping those girls more than hurting them because they need to realize that they cannot just do whatever they want, and that modesty is a positive trait, not a bad one. Sammy was also being illogical, as you said, by thinking that the girls would notice him after quitting.

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Sammy should have quit his job on account of the girls. In 1966 women were still going through a major battle, fighting for their rights and for respect in America. The girls are berated by the manager Mr. Lengel about the amount of clothing they have on, or lack thereof. Sammy takes up for the girls by quitting his job that he desperately needed to provide for his family. This shows that Sammy really cares about how women are treated and he cares about this enough to quit his job on a whim for three girls that wouldn't even give them the time of day. This is not about Sammy liking or being attracted to the girls, although that played a factor, it is merely about him taking a stand for what he believes.

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Honestly, I think that Sammy should not have quit his job. He made a rash decission that will stick with him until he is able to leave the town. Him quiting gave him a reputation of being a quiter, the minute he walked out of A&P's doors, so now he is going to have a tough time even getting a small job around town. Also, it was a stupid reason to quit, just because you don't think your boss/manager should have told some people to put some clothes on, because if I walk into Walmart, there are plenty of people who need that memo.

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Updike writes that Sammy will “feel this for the rest of your life,” do you think that Sammy’s experience quitting will be a positive or negative effect on his life? I like your comment about big decisions not being based off of emotions, especially spontaneous emotions. I think Sammy was worked up with stress due to previous customers. The he saw the girls and felt better, but when his boss approached the young ladies he acted in the moment and quit his job. At that moment he probably felt that he could act heroic by quitting his job, only to find out it was not worth it when he saw the ladies drive away. I believe he acted irrationally because not only did he not get to speak with the young ladies, but he quit his job. This only leaves him single, and with no income.

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Sammy does show that he has a dislike for his job which is true. The problem though come later because Sammy is in a small town. In a small town there are only a few businesses and they know each other. So when Sammy just quit without warning how will he be able to get a new job later? And if Sammy really wanted to quit his job why did it take the girls coming in for him to quit?

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Sammy quit his job over a couple of girls that he didn't even talk to. I wouldn't quit my job over a random pretty girl unless I really thought I would get something out of quitting. If i were to quit my job she would have to be pretty special. Sammy quit his job for a girl and didn't  even get her in the end.

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Sammy has other ways to handle the situation. Sammy could have stood up for the girls without quitting his job. It would have been a more intelligent move to tell Lengel that he was wrong to embarrass the girls, and then go back to work. He would still be getting paid, and he would have saved himself from embarrassment.

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Sammy already did not like his job but the girls shouldn't have been the last reason he quit. The girls will not know what Sammy did to try to be heroic in a way. If he wanted to quit before then I believe he would have already quit before he saw the girls.

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"...you're supposed to do the right thing even when no one is watching" but where is the line drawn for doing the right thing? By quitting he gave up what may be the only income his family receives. Could he have resorted to a different method of standing up for the girls? Maybe simply discussing the issue with the manager would have sufficed. Back to my original question, where is the line drawn for doing the right thing?

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Sammy should have not quit his job at A&P. I believe he quit his job without seriously thinking about it. He wanted to look like a hero to the girls that came into the grocery store but ended up making a mistake. The girls didn't even know that he quit his job, they are in different social classes and will probably never talk to or see each other again. He was enjoying their company too much that he got carried away and quit his job. It was a mistake because he will have no money, his parents will be angry at him, and the job was a good opportunity for him.

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The primary reason Sammy quit his job was to chase the girls. However, I would like to ask you to put yourself in Sammy's shoes. Would you quit your job just because a group of attractive girls walked in? Sammy obviously had underlying motivation to his quitting of his job. Sammy used the girls at a catalyst to channel his preexisting dislike for his current situation. He repeatedly states that everyone that comes into the store are just like sheep following the crowd. Sammy also makes fun of the customers and his coworker who he feels have nothing interesting in their lives. He expresses his desire not to end up like this. This is why he wants an escape from his current situation. He is afraid he will just conform. These are the real reasons Sammy wanted to quit.

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I do not think that Sammy should have quit his job, because he didn’t know the girls and I think that he should have ask the girls if they might have wanted to hang out first. He lives in a small town and his parents do not have much and him working helps them out, and I believe that he should have thought about his family rather than some random girls before he quit. I also think that he should have been looking for another job than just up and quitting because there may not be any other job openings and the others jobs may call the manager at A&P to see how he worked and the boss may tell them that he just up and quit without notice, so that may make them not want to hire him. I feel like Sammy should have thought about it and realized what he was doing before he just up and quit.

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I believe that Sammy should not have quit his job. All that he did was lose money for some girls that did not even notice him. Sammy may have liked what he saw, but a lot of people would not. I think his boss had a point. The girls should have wanted to wear more clothing into the store weather it was a rule or not. Sammy thought quitting would make him look like the hero, yet even if the girls noticed Sammy quit for them, with the different social classes, more than likely it would not have scored him a shot with girls anyways. So no, I do not think Sammy should have quit his job.

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Sammy shouldn't have quit his job. He needs to learn how to control how he sees young girls. So for that not being controlled he felt bad for the young girls in bikinis be stared at by older men like himself. And That made Mr. Lengel short a person which is terrible for the business. Also, when he left the store no one even knew what happen so his "heroic" action was irrelevant.

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Breanna, you make a very good point. It can probably be inferred that Sammy was already contemplating quitting his job, but that doesn't cancel out his selfish motives. It might have been a good excuse but it is still clear how big of a hypocrite he was being. We all can see that the main reason he did what he did was to impress a couple of pretty girls. If they did not look the way they did, he never would have quit.

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Payton you made a good point that Sammy was hypocritical. He really was. He was judging everybody in the store, but as soon as someone started judging what he wasn't it offended him and he overreacted.

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Andy, I agree with you that Sammy and Queenie are two different people depending on their social class. I believe to that Queenie would not have cared that Sammy stood up for her along with her friends.

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Josiah, I understand your point of the fact he didn't enjoy it, but not all things in life are enjoyable. I think he did it out of lust, not an excuse. If he really wanted to quit, he would've already done it. Those girls didn't even notice him. I agree that he projected some of it on them, but quitting was just irrational. I think he should've stayed and kept a job in such a small town. He would've been better off.

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An interesting point is that Sammy quit out of lust. I never thought about it that way. I simply thought he was just angry at the manager for embarrassing the girls and did it out of impulse. Now that you have pointed that out, I can see where you are coming from. Sammy was enjoying the show and the manager simply thought it was disrespectful of them to dress like that in the grocery store. Another point you made that I agree with is about his parents. I also had thought there had to be a reason, but I never thought that it could have been them being sick or unable to work. That was a great inference. I also wondered how he could have possibly quit so easily for random girls that he had no idea about, and as a consequence will now have to deal with being without money. I wonder how his parents will feel about the whole situation.