- 10 Mar, 2021
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Central Id for story “A&P
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Spacing: Double space your entire paper
Heading: Name, Professor English, assignment name, date (no comma) in upper left (double spaced)
Title: An original title (not the title of the assignment) centered on the first page on the first line below heading, no bolding, no italics, no font change
Page numbers: your last name and the page number in the header, right justified.
Justification: Left, not full or right
Do not use a cover page.
Paragraph indentations: ½-inch.
Do not skip extra lines between paragraphs. Double-space the entire paper.
Do not use the first or second-person point of view for this essay.
Use MLA documentation for any source information you might use
. “Is it done?” he asks, the responsible married man finding his voice. I forgot to say he thinks he’s
going to be manager some sunny day, maybe in 1990 when it’s called the Great Alexandrov and
Petrooshki Tea Company or something.
What he meant was, our town is five miles from a beach, with a big summer colony out on the
Point, but we’re right in the middle of town, and the women generally put on a shirt or shorts or
something before they get out of the car into the street. And anyway these are usually women
with six children and varicose veins mapping their legs and nobody, including them, could care
less. As I say, we’re right in the middle of town, and if you stand at our front doors you can see
two banks and the Congregational church and the newspaper store and three real-estate offices and
about twenty-seven old free-loaders tearing up Central Street because the sewer broke again. It’s not
as if we’re on the Cape; we’re north of Boston and there’s people in this town haven’t seen the
ocean for twenty years.
The girls had reached the meat counter and were asking McMahon something. He pointed, they
pointed, and they shuffled out of sight behind a pyramid of Diet Delight peaches. All that was left