While playing “How to Rob a Bank”, I noticed about halfway through (and don’t remember if this was the case before I noticed it), that Ted’s spelling wasn’t very good. He searched “Wyld barriers said to eet” and “git away frm a man wit a basbil bat” while he is trapped in the desert and trying to get back to San Antonio in “Part 2: escape”, even though he knew how to spell “how to treat blisters” right before those searches.
Why does Ted all of a sudden lose his ability to spell? Is it a commentary on the type of people (lower socioeconomic status without a lot of formal education) who are stereotypically associated with bank robbing?
In “Part 5: sister, sister”, Lizzie’s sister Deborah Frankin also mentions all of her suitors driving “Hondas, KIAs, and Fords”; cars normally thought to be middle class and not typically associated with the wealthy.
Are these details deliberately put into “How to Rob a Bank” in order to classify Ted, Lizzie, and Deborah as lower class? If so, is it problematic that that should be the case? What does it do to the narrative of “How to Rob a Bank”? If not, why are those details put into “How to Rob a Bank”?