Class
Sue represents the upper middle-class, Beverly and Laurence the aspirational middle middle-class and Tony and Angela the "new arrivals" and lower middle-class. The comedy arises from Beverly's inept attempts to help Angela and Tony, on account of her perceived class superiority, and Sue, on account of the fact that she is (still) married.
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Famous quotes containing the word class:
“Mankind divides itself into two classes,—benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast, the first a handful.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)
“That’s how the Germans are.... The aristocrats at the top hard as glass, cold as ice, servants of the King, the working masses willing, pliable, sentimental, susceptible to brutality, the middle class educated and cowardly to the point of servility.”
—Alfred Döblin (1878–1957)