Judgmental Behavior in A&P, Apocalypse and The Minister's Black Veil Judging a person is very common in today's society. People judge each other every day, whether it is judging another's appearance, which is the most common, or judging the way one behaves, everyone is guilty of it. However, in most cases we make judgments about someone without even knowing that person. It's wrong to judge someone because you can really hurt another's feelings, or it could backfire on them, and they could end up getting hurt. The worst part about judging someone is the fact that most people's judgments are wrong, considering that most people judge negatively. In the stories “A&P,” “Revelation,” and “The Ministers Black Veil,” all three main characters came face to face with judgmental behavior. In the stories "A&P" and "Revelation", both main characters are judgmental, while as in the story "The Minister's Black Veil", Hooper tries to stop people from being so judgmental. John Updike, the author of the short story "A&P", portrays how a young supermarket clerk, Sammy, judges three girls who enter the store from the beach. Sammy makes numerous preliminary judgments about these three girls. At the beginning of the story, when the girls first enter, notice their appearances. They immediately catch his attention because they are not wearing what is considered appropriate dress. They wear swimsuit tops with the straps down and are barefoot. Sammy refers to one of the girls in the bathing suit as “the fat one with the tan” (Updike 553). However, he is attracted to one of the other girls who have "long white prima Donna legs" (Updike 553). This girl in particular, he nicknames her "Queenie" because he feels she is the leader of the group. These girls are nothing more than sex symbols in Sammy's eyes. He mentioned Queenie's breasts more than once and described them as "the two softest vanilla balls" (Updike 553).