Original sentence: The term "lawn dog" refers to someone who mows lawns, and the main character, Trent Burns (Rockwell), is doing just that when he meets a lonely 10-year-old girl Devon Stockard (Barton), who comes from a wealthy family that has isolated her.They strike up a friendship, which is later misunderstood by the townspeople, who begin to suspect that Trent is a child molestor (ironically one of his adversaries is, but Trent is not)
Edited sentence: More importantly, he is resented as a dirt-poor working-class man corrupting a "respectable" child from an upper-middle class family.The term "lawn dog" refers to someone who mows lawns, and the main character, Trent Burns (Sam Rockwell), is doing just that when he meets a lonely 10-year-old girl-dreamer, Devon Stockard (Mischa Barton), who comes from a wealthy bourgeois family that has deliberately isolated her.They strike up a friendship, which is later completely misunderstood by the townspeople, who begin to suspect that Trent is a child molestor (ironically one of his adversaries is, but Trent is not)