These two works address the social oppression that women, especially lower-class women, face. Cee, as a child, experienced the hardships that a typical lower class American faces, combined with her race, her harsh life can only be best imagined. As a young girl, she suffers physical abuse from her grandmother, who is described in the novel as a woman who owns a car and a house, and by extension does the Moneys a favor by hosting them (Home 44). Cee was born on the road when her parents lost their home in Texas and moved to Lotus, Georgia. His apparently middle-class grandmother holds it over her head. Being born on the streets – or in the slums, as she usually said – was the prelude to a sinful and worthless life” (44). Lower class or poor women are not only oppressed by the upper class, but suffer more at the hands of middle class people