When the children enter the store, they are tip-toeing around and are left feeling out of place. Toni and Sugar feel as if they do not belong in the store because they cannot afford any of the items in the shop. Toni has these feelings because the store is very sophisticated and upscale, where she thinks only “uppity” individuals and whites can afford to shop. In the story it tells of an experience where she and Sugar once went into a Catholic Church. When they entered the church she was ‘to run up to the altar and do a tap dance while Sugar played the nose flute and messed around in the holy water’. When they both entered the church they were too afraid to do anything because they saw how it looked and not only it being a holy place, but was
