A&P

A&P

There are various conflicts in this story. Human vs human is between the store manager and the store clerk. One example is on page 222, paragraph 2, when the store manager starts a conflict between the girls and himself regarding the clothes they are wearing in his store. The store clerk stands up to the store manager on page 223, paragraph 7 when he states “I quit”. He then goes on to tell the store manager he did not need to embarrass the girls. Human vs self is when the store clerk does quit and on page 224 he is thinking about the consequences of his actions and actually seems to ponder whether he made the right choice. In paragraph 2 on page 224, he realizes “how hard the world is going to be to me hereafter. Human vs nature I think develops when the clerks see the girls come into the store in their bathing suits. It is a natural thing for the opposite sex to take note when something like that happens. It starts during the second paragraph of the story when the girls walk in. On page 221, paragraph 3, the clerk states “you know it’s one thing to have a girl in a bathing suit down on the beach, where what with the glare nobody can look at each other much anyway, and another thing in the cool of the A&P, under the fluorescent lights, against all the stacked packages, with her feet paddling along naked over our checkerboard green-and-cream rubber-tile floor. The conflicts are all resolved when the store clerk quits.