The reason why Sammy quits is the result of his sudden awareness of having given up his freedom which is very well announced in the two first sentences: “In walks these three girls in nothing but bathing suits/I’m in the third check-out slot” where the free behavior of the girls contrasts with Sammy’s slave condition.
In a word, "A & P" is the story of a conflict between two concepts, Freedom and Alienation that are suddenly brought face to face through the "sacrilegious" …showed first 85 words of 778 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 778 total…job… but this is the price for freedom, for not becoming an “iron human being” like Lengel (and like perhaps each of us in some extent), as the two last sentences suggest it:
“Looking back in the big windows, over the bags of peat moss and aluminum lawn furniture stacked on the pavement, I could see Lengel in my place in the slot, checking the sheep through. His face was dark gray and his back stiff, as if he’d just an injection of iron”.
