Summary

In the second part of Chapter 3, the author describes the contrast between what she says city people think of as country and what country people actually live. As examples, she describes differences in how clothing is perceived and worn and how trucks are constructed and driven, using examples from her own family history. She also describes how her mother, Jeannie, refused to see herself as “country,” dressing well and avoiding much of what she seemed to see as the way country women presented themselves. Jeannie, the author says, went out with girlfriends a lot and did whatever she could to make some extra money so she could keep up that habit. Her father, the author adds, would stay at home and worry about whether what Jeannie was doing would take her away from him. He too refused to be “country,” saying, for example...