What can you tell about a person just by looking at them? What can you tell by talking to them, or hearing them talk to someone?

Write Sammy, Lengle, Stokesie, & Queenie in your notebook. You must find two quotes about each character that reveal aspects of characterization. For each quote, make an inference about the character.

What does the fact that he quits his job, with no notice, over what may or may not be an unimportant event tell us about Sammy as a person?

Sammy says, “You never know for sure how girls’ minds work (do you really think it’s a mind in there or just a little buzz like a bee in a glass jar?)” What kind of person asks himself (or anyone else) a question like this? What conclusions do you draw from knowing this is how he thinks?

Imagine that, instead of Sammy, it is you in slot number three of the A&P in this small town when the three girls walk in wearing nothing but bathing suits. What do you think? How do you react?