"Some house slaves with curlers looked around after pushing their carts." John Updike's argument was that it took a group of girls her age to wake Sammy up about the boring, unhappy life she was living working at A&P. The text says: “Stokesie is married, with two children… He is twenty-two and I turned nineteen this April. I forgot to mention that he thinks he will become manager on a sunny day. Sammy already sees that if he continues working at A&P he will end up just like Stokes and he is not ready for that yet and also that it will take him years to become manager at A&P. On A&P it says "You'll feel it for the rest of your life," Lengel says, and I know that's true too, but remembering how he made that pretty girl blush makes me shudder so much... I look around for the my girls, but they're gone, of course... my stomach tightened as I felt how hard the world would be for me from now on. Sammy decided to quit his job, not only to impress girls, but to free himself from the cycle he sees in his job. Even though he knows it will be hard for him, leaving his job was a good decision for him