Lucky Girl - Completed

The men, working class manual labourer types, wouldn't want to be in the kitchen (most likely because they lack any cooking skills) with all the women after spending the previous week doing a physically hard job (I'm thinking Dekky here). Probably the grandmother has instilled in them over the decades that they are the breadwinners and she and the other women provide the meal. Again, this is a very small town working class way of life that none of the others see a problem with.

However, you've previously had chapters where Evie is exposed to a more modern, metropolitan way of thinking...especially from Marnie who is a bit on the woke side. So the tension between the family tradition on the one side and Evie's influences on the other is there and the catalyst for an argument is her father's drinking and her mothers'....well, her issues for she has many. It's telling that the person Evie latches on to in that group environment isn't a family member...it's the outsider who probably has more in common with Evie's social circle than the rest of the family.
Everything is interconnecting...well done.