I think that it relates to reverse racism when the mom starts saying all this stuff to this boy, like when she assumes hes' poor or that he doesn't get to eat a lot. Also when she assumes his dad does hard labor or tries to give him clothes, but it turns out the whole time that she is wrong about everything. And that it turns out that his life is almost the same as her life.
I think it can be compared to pewaukee in many different ways. The first way is in the story the mother thinks a lot like we do, such as she assumes she already knows everything about the person. For us it is what we think about other towns and how they are compared to us. What I think shirley Jackson is trying to teach us is not to assume how people live or act by their race. Also assuming things about people in the end can make you look like the dummy.
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