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A & P is a short story by John Updike. The main character, Sammy, is a 19 year old boy who works as a cashier in the A & P in a town outside Boston. The town is an ordinary, non-descript Protestant town and Sammy is often bored with the old, boring usual customers which he refers to as "sheep"...

I am doing a paper on John Updike and I think I want to base my thesis on how Updike uses women as objects of sex and desire in many of his novels/stories. If three scantily clad boys walked into the A & P instead of the three young girls, or perhaps three middle aged women just coming from...

If you could dine with any literary character, who would it be? Personally I think Holden Caulfield would be interesting. But then again Mr. Darcy has always had a soft spot in my heart!

I'm in Mr. Bingley's parlor observing a game of loo.

A Separate Peace - John Knowles. I think it's so beautiful in so many ways. Close seconds are To Kill A Mockingbird, and Boy's Life.