symbol of houses

In the Shaker Heights community, and throughout Little Fires Everywhere, houses and the concept of home symbolize an individual's identity. Celeste Ng uses the varying images of houses and homes, whether "huge" (125) and "imposing" (128) or not even a house at all, but "only half," (19) to comment on American identity and its relationship with materialism. The location, size, and appearance of a home symbolizes the class, wealth, and reputation of the families living inside, despite how falsely one's physical place of residence actually measures their worth as a human being.