“Whatever outdoor living the suburban family does is done in the back yard, where the smell of charcoal dominates the still are of a July night. Here, then, is the real suburban living, and if one is tempted to doubt it, he need only look on every side to discover that his neighbors, every one, are proclaiming their devotion to fresh air and the suburban, even American way of life by eating burnt steak in the dark.” (72)

(Donaldson, Scott. The Suburban Myth. New York: Columbia University Press, 1969. Print.)