Expert answer:Hillbilly Elegy Reading Questions

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Questions for Hillbilly Elegy
1. In what way is the Appalachian culture described in Hillbilly Elegy a “culture in trouble”? Do
you agree with the author’s description of the book’s premise:
The book is about what goes on in the lives of real people
when the industrial economy goes south. It’s about reacting
to bad circumstances in the worst way possible. It’s about a
culture that increasingly encourages social decay instead of
counteracting it.
2. Vance suggests that unemployment and addiction are self-inflicted and that the Appalachian
culture is one of “learned helplessness”—individuals feel they can do nothing to improve their
circumstances. Do you agree with Vance’s assessment? What could individuals do to improve their
circumstances? Or are the problems so overwhelming they can’t be surmounted?
3. What are the positive values of the culture Vance talks about in Hillbilly Elegy?
4. The author’s mother is arguably the book’s most powerful figure. Describe her and her struggle
with addiction. How did the violence between her own parents, Mamaw and Papaw, affect her own
adulthood?
5. To What—or to whom—does Vance attribute this escape from the cycle of addiction and
poverty?
6. Talk about Vance’s own resentment toward his neighbors who were on welfare but owned
mobile phones.
7. Vance writes
Political scientists have spent millions of words trying to
explain how Appalachia and the South went from
staunchly Democratic to staunchly Republican in less than
a generation…. I could never understand why our lives felt
like a struggle while those living off of government largess
enjoyed trinkets that I only dreamed about.
Does his book address those two separate but related issues satisfactorily?
8. Critics of Hillbilly Elegy accuse Vance of “blaming the victim” rather than providing a sound
analysis of the structural issues left unaddressed by government. What do you think?
9. What does this book bring to the national conversation about poverty—its roots and its
persistence? Does Vance raise the tone of discourse or lower it?
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