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Reason 1
Love is impossible between people with different social classes.

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“I was in love with a little girl “Everybody's got a Helene “I guess I would have gotten

named Helene Tucker, a light- Tucker, a symbol of over Helene by summertime,
complexioned little girl with everything you want. I loved but something happened in

pigtails and nice manners. She her for her goodness, her that classroom that made her

was always clean, and she was cleanness, her popularity. face hang in front of me for the
smart in school. I think I went She'd walk down my street next twenty-two years. When I

to school then mostly to look and my brothers and sisters played the drums in high

at her. I brushed my hair and would yell, "Here comes school, it was for Helene, and
even got me a little old Helene," and I'd rub my when I broke track records in

handkerchief. It was a lady's tennis sneakers on the back college, it was for Helene, and
handkerchief, but I didn't want of my pants and wish my hair when I started standing behind

Helene to see me wipe my wasn't so nappy and the microphones and heard
nose on my hand”. white folks' shirt fit me applause, I wished Helene
better”. could hear it too”.

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In this part of the text, you can In this part you can realize In this part, Gregory cannot

see that Gregory is in love with that Dick tries to be at the stop thinking of Helene.
a girl who doesn’t belong to same level of Helene taking Everything he does is for her.

his social class. He describes care of his appearance. It is He only wanted to catch her
her as the most perfect and very common in society attention. It happens when

beautiful girl in the world. because the first impression people are underestimated.

These things are common in matters when someone tries They just want to have
our society, poor people are to get a job or an important attention, but other people

always trying to catch the profession. mistreat them and isolate them
attention to succeed. from society.