Class

In Pineapple Street, the author thematically explores class. In Chapter 4, Sasha contemplates the differences between her family with the Stocktons. When her in-laws happily joke about their family member’s criminal antics, she knows that “these exploits look funny, but on Sasha’s family she knows they just looked trashy” (51). She does not share stories about her cousins who are “infamous in the small beach town outside Provenience where she grew up and had only avoided mile-long rap sheers because her uncle happened to be the chief of police” for fear of judgement (50). While the families’ behavior is similarly debauched, the Stocktons’ money allows them to see the crimes as jovial. As members of the elite, they disdain middle class people for the same behavior because it allows them to justify their own privilege and distinguish themselves from others.

In Chapter 9, Jackson continues to examine class...