what do details about five year old annies neighborhood and home suggest about her family and social class?
As well as being Annie's own biography, it is also the biography of a city, and of a way of life, particularly in the upper middle class area that the Doak family come from.Mom and Dad Doak are a fun couple; they encourage their daughter to follow her dreams and interests and they set her an example for this by following their own (her father sets off on a long boat expedition purely after reading about boat trips in a book). Annie's memories show us that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, in her case especially, as she collects interest after interest from voraciously reading books and deliberately developing her imagination.
