A & P | Setting
The action of "A & P" takes place in grocery store in a town north of Boston that is five miles from the nearest beach. Updike told Short Stories for Students that he wrote "A & P" "in 1961, when I was living in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Driving past the local A & P, I asked myself, 'Why are there no short stories that take place inside an A & P?' I proceeded to write one, based on a glimpse I had had of some girls in bathing suits shopping in the aisles. They looked strikingly naked." Updike added: "Originally the story went on, past the ending it now has: Sammy...
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