Something to do with baseball. Analyse

Something to Do With Baseball There are several hints to be found in the text that the story takes place in a working class environment. You know what the setting is from the very first paragraph in which the dads’ arrive in ‘coughing machines with payment plans that always outlived the engines.’ The working class environment is focused on as an all-important theme throughout the text. There are various descriptions of how the families’ housing situations, the unstable security they have to offer to their children, and how the money just barely covers the expenditures. The families of the neighborhood