Description in, “On Growing Up White Trash.”

In “On Growing Up White Trash,” the author uses description to express how white trash is a culture and not just a derogatory term. On a number of occasions in the text, the author uses description to make the reader better understand the environments that she lived in throughout her childhood and adolescent years. “The clock on the wall was a gangster that shot out machine gun noises on the hour. We had fake stained glass unicorns hanging from the little suction cup hooks on the living-room window” (O’Neill) 33. In this example, she describes the decor of her childhood apartment building…