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1984, Paperback, 239 pages
- Sales Rank: #693949 in Books
- Published on: 1984-09-12
- Released on: 1984-09-12
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .70" h x 4.20" w x 6.80" l,
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful.
CLASS a classic--just ask Peyton Place!
By Allen Smalling
CLASS offers an unflinching lowdown on where your allegedly "classless" fellow Americans really stand. From the "top out of sight" ultra-rich through the middle classes and down to the destitute "bottom out of sights," Fussell has everyone pegged. Clothes, consumption, speech and leisure give us away much more thoroughly than politics or money. Fussell is not only eloquent and sharp-tongued, he is plain-spoken: in spite of a misstep when he creates a highly eccentric "X" class, his warts and all viewpoint is the kind only gifted social commentators and satirists can get away with
For instance, Fussell's core characteristics of class are on clear display in the 1957 novel PEYTON PLACE, set in small-town New England in the 1940s. In the opening chapters, shrewd and blunt author Grace Metalious points out that the top out-of-sight mill owner Harrington's house, the largest in town, is "screened from the street by tall trees and wide lawns," a perfect description of Fussell's top-out-of-sight class. Harrington's neighbor the newspaper owner/editor inherited a fortune and can treat his editorship of the paper as something of a lark, an exact example of Fussell's upper class which, to use Fussell's words, "inherits a lot of money [and] earns quite a bit too, usually from some attractive, if slight, work, without which it would feel bored and even ashamed." Also on the street lives the mere upper-middle-class, for example family doctor Matt Swain with his colonnaded, if bogus, "Southern-type" house.
Middle-class dress-shop owner Constance MacKenzie and daughter Allison live on the town's second-best street, whose houses were "simple, well-constructed one-family dwellings, most of them modeled on Cape Cod lines and painted white with green trim." Connie, in her prudery and her despair over her "dark" New York past, epitomizes what Fussell calls the middle class's mixture of "earnestness and psychic insecurity." And so it goes--Ted Carter, the town's high-school athletic hero, lives in a lower-middle-class area, his father a bookkeeper. Selena, Allison's best friend, lives in the "shacks," an unimproved area with no mod. cons. outside the town proper and thus immune from its statistics and politics. (Consider Fussell's "destitute" and "bottom out-of-sights".)
Of course, politics and technology do create a few changes: Fussell's middle class, which "used to seem the most deeply rooted in time and place," had by the Eighties become "the most rootless," shuttling from one bland suburb to another at the behest of their huge corporate employers (and perhaps today to establish any career, period). Fussell opines that "[b]ack in the 1940s there was still a real lower-middle class in this country, whose solid high-school education and addiction to 'planning' and 'saving' maintained it in a position above the working class." But it was "pauperized by the inflation of the 1960s and 1970s and transformed into the high-proletarian class," which is "in bondage to monetary policy, rip-off advertising, crazes and delusions, mass low culture, fast foods, and consumer schlock."
Fussell also believes, and I agree, that the most interesting class clash in this country is not where the newly wealthy bump into the aristocrats, as in England, but where the mere middle-class tries to enter the upper-middle-class, which "resists its incursions." A September 2001 piece I found in the Atlantic Monthly indicts the author of a book meant to help diverse students get into Ivy League schools but who nonetheless admits to being "personally most turned off by Junior Statesmen of America and by kids who started investment clubs at their schools." How typical an instance of snobbery by the haute against the so-called "pushy" middle class! But, Fussell exults of the upper-middle-class, "Who wouldn't want to be in a class so free, secure and amusing?" Since one of Fussell's class indicators is that the upper-middle-class house has "more rooms than you need," note the current trend toward white-collar families saddling themselves with outrageous mortgages to buy those huge new, highly Polyurethaned, suburban tract chateaux and to deck them with oriental rugs-emulating, if not quite achieving, upper-middle-class look and taste.
I introduced this book to two different book-discussion groups and noticed the same phenomena at each: (1) most people loved it and no one disliked it; (2) the funniest parts were the people we recognized at one remove ("suburbanites," "old money," etc.); and (3) the book will draw blood at least once when Fussell deals with YOUR case! You can count on it, so you'd better be a good sport! But readers revere it for its extremely--at times excruciatingly--erudite prose style. Consider the semiotics of Presidential dress: "The acute student of men's class signals could virtually infer Reagan's politics of Midwestern small-town meanness from his [cowboy] getups, just as one might deduce [Franklin] Roosevelt's politics of aristocratic magnanimity from such classy accessories as his naval cape, pince-nez, and cigarette holder." How true. How sad! And Crawford wears what it likes.
CLASS would be sad if it weren't so funny. But as one reviewer remarked, your own class will rise at least one notch just for having read it.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Tart humour and razor sharp accurate
By JIsaacs1962
I was introduced to CLASS in the 1980s by a college professor--he used it as the ONLY textbook in a course on social class in modern American society. Although the book is now somewhat dated, it remains pertinent to the study of social class in the USA as a keenly accurate depiction of American society at the time it was written.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Very funny
By Freedom
Loved this book, very funny and true.
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