Summary:
A "working class white girl" remembers how she fostered a love of reading from an early age which led on to her becoming a writer.
Response:
This was apparently back-in-the-day, the '50's, and so some of the things she mentioned were outdated and foreign to me. Especially when she described her schooling. She made a remark about a "Negro girl" being Catholic as well, which took me a little while to understand (both were considered uncool back then).
She got a little ramble-y which, given that what I'm doing right now is a long ramble, I'm really in no place to criticize.
The idea that I pulled out of this reading was how much class seemed to impact this girl as she was growing up. Now, maybe that seemed out of the ordinary for me because I'm so thoroughly "middle class" as she would day. It sounded like everything she was reading took place in a middle class house. She seemed so familiar with the middle class house from the boos she read that she recognized the houses of her new friends almost. That makes me wonder what she was reading. I would think that a middle class house from the 1800's or earlier (all those classics that she loved reading) would be sufficiently different from a house in the '50's or '60's. Not just in terms of technology, but even in architecture and design.
Maybe it's only rich people and poor people that think about class. Us in the middle just don't worry about it.
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