Comparing Updike's A And P

“A&P” by Updike (1961), is a short story about a young man named Sammy who worked at the checkout line at a Grocery Store. One summer afternoon as stands behind the third check-out slot he notices three girls walking into the store wearing only their bathing suits. As the girls make their way through the aisles he notices everything about them, the way they carry themselves and the confidence each of them emit. He quits his job because of how the manager refer to the girls as embarrassing him and the town’s culture. But his act of gestures was only of an empty heroism. In this short story Queenie is Sammy’s temptress. Campbell (1949), the creator of the seventeen stages of the Hero Cycle, referred to the eight stage of the second cycle as Woman