In the story "After You My Dear Alphonse" Mrs. Wilson made many assumptions about Boyd and his family. even though I didn't think she really meant to she was trying to be to nice to avoid saying something hurtful but in reality she was being pretty racist by the things she was asking him and saying about him. I think it compares to our society because you will still get judged and people will assume things about you just because of where you live or how you dress but people don't really say it like that anymore there are still people that do but people wont really say things about you to you everybody does it behind your back I think Shirley Jackson taught us not to judge a book by its cover and to actually get to know a person before you make assumptions about them because there probably different than you think they are
When Mrs Wilson says "You shouldn't let Johnny make you carry all that wood" she assumes Johnny was making Boyd carry it in.
When Mrs. Wilson says "Boyd will eat anything" she assumes that Boyd is starving because he is poor
When Mrs. Wilson says "Boyd wants to grow up and become a big strong man so he can work" she assumes that Boyd will have to work when he is older she uses
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