A&P by John Updike

JOHN UPDIKE

1932-2009

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The author was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, and spent his first years in nearby Shillington, a small town where his father was a high school science teacher. The area surrounding Reading has provided the setting for many of his stories, with the invented towns of Brewer and Olinger standing in for Reading and Shillington. An only child, Updike and his parents shared a house with his grandparents for much of his childhood. When he was 13, the family moved to his mother's birthplace, a stone farmhouse on an 80-acre farm near Plowville, eleven miles from Shillington, where he continued to attend school. He then moved to Boston after the separation in 1974. John remarried and settled in Georgetown Ma. http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/upd0bio-1

As shown from the picture above on the left hand side, the bathing suit was from the 1960's. As described in the short story A&P by John Updike, the three girls were wearing this kind of two-piece. Looking at the picture and comparing it to the two-pieces the women wear now is completely different. Back in the 1960 the bathing suits were Conservative. If the manager was in this day and age and seen what people where now to the beach, my opinion he would be shocked and disgusted.