His story goes from humble working-class beginnings to exaggerated celebrity, climaxing in the "Homages to the Square".
He is a man with a complicated set of allegiances, to a mythic America, to a largely unknown Korea, to working-class beginnings and suburban affluence.
The room's contents, in other words, identify the protagonist's essential anxiety, torn as he is between his working-class beginnings and his bourgeois achievements.
"I think of a country where people who do well don't have questions asked about their accent, their class, their beginnings, but have admiration for what they have done and the success they've achieved".
By the end of the century the Tatars had developed a substantial merchant class and the beginnings of a national intelligentsia.
They were the latest graduates of the Farm Beginnings class run by GrowNYC, which also oversees more than fifty farmers' markets in New York City, including the huge one in Union Square.
The first section, "The Class Prophet," examines the early beginnings of the writer, starting with his first published fiction story in his high school's magazine, progressing through his job as a reporter at The Kansas City Star, and ending with his entrance into the army.
In southern Zambia, archaeology has thrown light on both the emergence of class distinctions and the beginnings of trade with the east coast.
I studied with her for four years, and took every class she offered: from Beginnings, through Scene Class, finally to Script Analysis, which was both the most daunting and the most electrifying.
Mrs Thatcher's insistence on class mobility, and the beginnings of a 'classless society' helped to make Storey's work seem passé.
