I find it much more difficult to be bound to a set of facts, to not have the freedom of fiction and imagination. Class tensions and pretensions run throughout every work in this collection. A great taboo subject in America is class. We pretend it does not exist here, but of course it does. I have lived in every class and think it is critical to talk about the different manners, mores, and values.
Class is a worthy topic of observance.
I loved reading Jane Austen and the Br ntes. And much of what these English women novelists talk about is class. That's what they write about. And we need to think about the cost of upward mobility in this country. So often to achieve upward mobility, you have to cut your roots.