A&P by john updike

This short story was written very informally that you feel as though you are having a conversation with the narrator. What I found very interesting while reading it is the attention to little detail, especially when describing the girls and their character. It was almost creepy to me how he noticed so many little details about the girls, and there was also some sexual attraction that could be sensed from the descriptions. It is a mundane story, girls come in wearing a bikini to a store to pick up stuff, but the way it is written, and narrated in a first person enables us to know more about the girls character, as well as the other cashier and the manager, while also learning a great deal about the narrator himself.