Seeing p538 1&2

1. Deresiewicz shows that in American mainstream we show our "working class" in some ways that simply aren't reality. From the films like "Million Dollar Baby", and "Good Will Hunting", or even "Simpsons" either show harsh extremes or play off the middle class for laughs. Today we lack a more realistic feel within media for the "working class", they show a regular family mom & dad, two children and one of the parents works really hard so they lead a nice life. What about the struggling mother with a child that works two jobs, or the father struggling to keep a job to pay his child support. Our media does a great job to smudge the line between working class from middle class as the two within media have seamlessly intertwined. To be honest the term working class doesn't really even exist even more. The poor has been pushed to the side, and you barely see them unless they beg you for change on the side of the sidewalk.

2. Deresiewicz audience was most likely someone caucasian, above the age of twenty-five and doesn't have the greatest grasp on the how others are doing outside of his or her community. To be honest if he ddn't directly link the working class with the south it opens the essay to really talk about America as whole, and not one who listens to country music and watches NASCAR.