A&P and The Bridge Comes to Yellow Sky: Don’t Believe Everything You See There are many instances where appearance can be deceiving. This act of a deceiving appearance can be helpful in some cases and not in other cases. In the stories “A&P,” by John Updike, and “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky,” by Stephan Crane, appearances are very deceiving. When someone perceives a person on the outside, it might not be who that person really is on the inside. When three girls enter a grocery store wearing only two-piece suits, in the story “A&P,” a nineteen-year-old cashier looks at these girls as though they are very stro