![]() ![]() All Pepper Street is concerned with what unsavory elements this will allow into their neighborhood. Pepper Street is abuzz with news that the wall is soon to be torn down to make way for a new housing subdivision. The residents of Pepper Street consider themselves upstanding citizens, when in fact their numerous prejudices have filtered down to their children. Pepper Street, an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Cabrillo, California, is separated from lower-class neighboring streets by the wall of a sprawling, wealthy estate. She also admitted that she wrote the book, in part, to get back at her parents, whom she resented for their narrow-mindedness and greed, stating that a writer's first novel has to be the one in which they get back at their parents. Jackson loosely based the novel on her childhood, growing up in an affluent California neighborhood. She began writing it while her husband, literature critic Stanley Edgar Hyman, was writing a book of literary analysis, titled The Armed Vision. ![]() ![]() The Road Through the Wall was Jackson's first novel. It draws upon Jackson's own experiences growing up in Burlingame, California. The Road Through the Wall is a 1948 novel by author Shirley Jackson. ![]()
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