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AnalysisClyde manages to make a fresh start, but his position in Lycurgus is an unusual one. He is both connected and not connected to his wealthy uncle and cousins. He is a Griffiths, and as such is treated with some respect by the employees of the factory, but he is not part of the rich Griffiths’ world in Lycurgus. He lives in one room in a boardinghouse and has the most menial of jobs in the factory. He is still naï ve about wealth and position, and what that means for a person. He thinks for example that just because Gilbert Griffiths is in a senior position in the company he must be able to arrive late and leave early. He thinks being wealthy is all about fun and enjoyment, a kind of paradisal world. He still looks on from the outside and dreams, as for example, when he first sees the Griffiths’ house: “Indeed in his immature and psychically unilluminated mind it suddenly evoked a mood which was of roses, perfumes, lights and music. The beauty! The ease! ” (chapter V). He is bitterly aware of the contrast between this branch of the family and the poverty and squalor of his own. What he does not yet realize is the rigidity of the class structure he has stumbled upon in Lycurgus. It is a hierarchical world. Samuel and Gilbert Griffiths believe firmly in the class structure: “One had to have castes” (chapter IV). Old wealth (the Griffiths) looks down on more recent wealth (the Finchleys and the Cranstons); and in the factory, employees such as Whiggam and Kemerer show excessive deference to Gilbert Griffiths simply because he is the son of the owner. Clyde will soon find out that his status as the poor cousin will exclude him from the society he longs to be a part of. Clyde’s position is therefore an anomalous one and difficult for him to manage. Analysis Book 2, Chapters 1-6 Данная страница нарушает авторские права? |