As the story starts in the beginning, running through the protagonist’s mind is thoughts of lust and questionable qualities of character. He stares at the supposed scantily dressed girls entering and shopping as one of his customers. Trailing an idea of uncontrollable uncomforting thoughts by this character, he is distracted and doesn’t notice the second scanning of a woman’s item causing her to be upset at the man. This paints a personality of a man who is simply letting his sexual feelings and interests overpower his mind. As the girls continue looking throughout the store, the interest of the main character overwhelms him as he intensely ponders what each girl is thinking and what brought them to his store. As he continues wondering, Sammy leads his thoughts to judge each girl as if placing them in his own personal race. Although written many years before, the main character promotes an inappropriate idea of allowing any other man like of Sam to judge any innocence brought about by younger women into their “world”.
As he continues the constant pondering about whether the “prettiest” is the other’s ultimate leader, he asks of a question “do you really think it’s a mind in there or just a little buzz like a bee in a glass jar?”, simply voiding the actual intelligence of each young woman. Although unnoticed by him, the girl notices his fondness of her and simply plays back in game, exciting Sammy into a fantasy world. This is where a sudden changed happened in his view as his manager tells the girl “this is not a beach”. Sammy turns his focus to his pondering of why his manager stuck to his old preaching ways. Continuing the thought of before, Sammy believes his innocence in all this is true and valid as his manager is stuck in the past while he is not. As the patience decreases of each character in the story, the girls leave. This causes for an internal outrage in Sam as he quits his job in hopes of the girl’s praise. Running to the parking lot, Sam looks for the girls in hope of praise and love for his supposed “heroic” act.
Differentiating from his imaginative hoping, the girls have left, for him to luckily never see again. Throughout the story, it takes the reader through the thoughts and processes of the protagonist, to only end up proving how Sam let his sexual thoughts and desires control his mind, creating an imaginative state of his own bliss. Although shown as innocent and loving from the readers point of view, the protagonist shows of ignorant misogynistic actions and thoughts, creating an idea of the girl’s uneasiness.
