In House of Yes, a play by Wendy MacLeod, the character Marty brings his fiancée, Lesly, to meet his family. She comes from a di
fferent class, which leads to exchanges like this one between Lesly, Marty, and Marty's two siblings, Anthony and Jackie:Anthony: Would you like a glass of Liebfraumilch?Lesly: No thank you. I'll just have a glass of wine.Marty: That's the name of the wine.Lesly: Oh! [laughs] I don't speak French.Jackie: Who does?Anthony: You do.Jackie: Oh,
Cultural capital is the social-relational assets that a person has in his personal qualities. These qualities help determine what a person's life is like. It consists of the various fields of social assets in a person like intellect, education, his dressing sense and his speaking mannerisms.
In the given excerpt from House of Yes, Anthony, Jackie, Marty and Lesly were in conversation about the wine. Jackie's act of asking <em>"who speaks French"</em> when he is also well aware of his own ability to use the language shows his 'superior' social class as compared to Lesly, who had come <em>"from a different class"</em>. This very act of 'showing off' by Jackie shows the sibling's unhappiness at their brother's fiancee, who is from a lower class than them.
