The conflict is within Sammy who is fretted that he would end up like his co-worker married with a family and working as a cashier. Sammy is working as a cashier at A&P when 3 teenagers came into the store where he worked in their swim suits. He is very fascinated and dismayed when his boss reprimanded them for not being fully dressed. Sammy is making an attempt to impress them quits his job but soon realizes they were not in the area to see him to do so. Sammy is dreamy, but Queenie is distant and in her own world. Her role in the story to fortify Sammy’s character and generate divergence. Stocks and Lengel also add to his conflict. Sammy learns a terrible lesson, but he does not change. In this story the antagonist was "Queenie" and her
