A & P

By the author saying ”. . .my stomach kind of fell as I felt how hard the world was going to be to me hereafter.”, it indicates that the society doesn’t pay for your kindness or tolerance but they judge it by different point of view. In the story, the clerk loses his job only because he was trying to be kind to the three girls in the store. The quote shows how the world judges something not with the one’s purpose of the action.