Question

People always treat you funny when they find out you stay in a certain kind of neighborhood. But I was used to people treating me funny. When your clothes are two sizes too big, and you got on no-name sneakers, and your mother cuts your hair and it looks likes your mother cuts your hair, you get used to people treating u funny". (pg. 24). How would u define where ghost lives and what class does he belong to? is he wealthy? poor? middle class? in the book ghost

Answer 1

Ghost lives in a poor, working‑class urban neighborhood — the kind of place where people notice and judge kids for hand‑me‑down clothes, no‑name sneakers, and a mother who cuts hair at home. The quote you gave shows the markers of low socioeconomic status: clothes two sizes too big, cheap shoes, and a homemade haircut. Those details, plus the way “people treat [him] funny,” place him clearly outside the middle class or wealthy groups.

So: not wealthy, not middle class — Ghost is lower‑income/working poor. That status shapes how others see him, how he sees himself, and motivates much of his behavior and desire to escape or prove himself (which is a central tension in the book).

If you need a sentence for an essay: “Ghost lives in a poor, working‑class neighborhood; Reynolds uses clothing, coiffure, and social stigma to show Castle’s low socioeconomic status and the limited opportunities and judgments he faces.”