Faulkner's 'Checkouts': A Short Story

In the short story “Checkouts”, a girl parents move her to Cincinnati. She is having a hard time adjusting and is not happy with her parents. Then one day while visiting the grocery store she sees a checkout boy. She thinks he is cute and he thinks the same. So every time she goes to the grocery store they look for eachother. She feels like she is in love with him even though they have not even properly talked. They end up never talking each other, and a while later they see each other with different dates at the movies. These events prove to me that the girl has changed dramatically throughout the story. A key example I found was located in the second paragraph where it is stated, “But it is difficult work, suffering, and in its own way a kind of art,” This sentence describes how miserable the girl is about moving. She is explaining that it’s becoming too hard to be so upset all the time. Then as you further in the paragraph you see how it mentions that things changed when she left the house and met the bag boy. So she has already changed her attitude and her

The text states “Eventually- in fact within the week- a kind and intelligent boy who lived very near her beautiful house asked the girl to a movie, and she gave up her fancy for the bag boy at the supermarket.” This text is after she decides not to go into the bag boys line. The huge change is that throughout the entire story she is “deeply in love” with the bag boy. Then just after not going into his line one time, she already has another date within the week. She also describes the house as beautiful, which shows how her views have changed since the beginning of the story. The girl also goes from liking the bag boy, to then going on a date with a smart intelligent man. (This makes me think that she only liked the bag boy because it was what her parents would not want for her, and now she likes someone that seems to fit more into her “social