"Dungarees are expensive too," Elsbeta said after investigating a Gap shop near her. "True, but they look like rags," he said. "Is that why David won’t move here?" Elsbeta asked, "middle class isn’t cool?"
"Yup," Ira said with predictable scorn. Elsbeta raised a dismissive shoulder to show her contempt. It was one thing for David to live in the village when he had aspired to write plays. She supported this aspiration along with his string ties, but pretentious as an accountant and she told him not to wear the ties when he came to visit. It was one thing to wear them in Greenwich Village, another to wear them in middle class Brooklyn. Worse, it was a waste of money to live in Greenwich Village if he was going to be an accountant. Greenwich Village was not a place for accountants, and Brook
