Peer Pressure in "The Osage Orange Tree" "The Osage Orange Tree" by William Stafford tells a story of how peer pressure kept 2 people apart who wanted to like each other. The narrator of the story liked one of his classmates but was afraid to show that he liked her. He didn't have the maturity at the beginning of the story to go against peer pressure. Peer pressure was involved with Evangeline being shunned because she was poor. Her faded blue dress set her apart from the rest of the students. SHe only had two dresses. The narrator stated, "she had changed from the dark heavy dress to the dull blue of the last fall" (370). The narrartor described her house as "gray and lopsided" (374). Her house had no running water. "There was a grayish white place on the ground where the dishwater had been thrown out....

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