On rich people these exploits looked funny, but on Sasha's family she knew they just looked trashy.
-- Narrator (Chapter 4)

Importance: Toward the outset of Pineapple Street, the author enacts this moment to explore the arbitrary delineations of class. When the Stocktons recount stories of their family members’ criminal activities, the anecdotes are humorous and jovial. However, they disdain the antics of Sasha’s family as classless because they do not come from money. By casting their own family’s debauched behavior as comical, they create a false border between the upper and middle class.

After the heartache of her first love, she was done with grand romantic gestures. She had seen the tumultuous underbelly of such passion.
-- Narrator (Chapter 4)

Importance: The author utilizes this moment in the novel to further her thematic inspection of love. When Sasha dated her high school boyfriend, Mullin, he was in love with her but expressed his affection through dramatic displays...