"We are inside the store but not up at the counter- a part of the society but not a part of the community- but the open picture plane still welcomes us... The clustered burst of white in the center of Rockwell's painting, created by the young woman's dress, the boy's jacket, and the soda jerk's hat and shirt, constitute our gardenia; we stand in the same relationship to that white blossom of tactile paint as the soda jerk does to the young woman's corsage."