Girl Society and Class Quotes

Even dinner changes based on the person's social status. That’s actually not too surprising since food seems to be a big deal based on how much Mom keeps talking about it. If food is important, of course it would change based on how important the person eating it is going to be. We have to wonder, though: what are you serving the unimportant guest? Reheated meatloaf?

You know, a lot of judging goes on in this text, but we never know who is doing all of it. Sure, it seems like women are judging each other—but men are doing their share of it, too. Just like Girl is learning that she has to serve the men in her life, she is also learning that they are going to be in charge of deciding who gets high social status.

We are 99% sure that this is about respecting other people's property or something like that. Or, of course, flowers that carry the plague. It's 50-50, really.