... stayed by his side. However, the author's true feelings about women were revealed when a handsome soldier was brought into the picture. After bringing food down to the widow in her husband's tomb for some time, "this woman stopped resisting, and she accepted the young soldier's love just as she had accepted his food" (paragraph 11). In "A & P", the young girl's were first portrayed as people who were somewhat questionable when it came to their innocence, which is the exact opposite depiction as in "The Widow of Ephesus". They are looked down upon for their lack of clothing and illustrated as creatures that were only visually intriguing. The guy in the store is obviously an experienced girl-watcher because he said the "whole store was like a pinball machine and I didn't know which tunnel they'd come out of" (paragraph 12). So, he was unmistakably interested in the fact ...

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