Critically evaluate the significance of these episodes in the light of this comment.

The Go-Between, written in 1952, is a retrospective novel looking back fifty years to a hot July in 1900. Throughout the novel the reader is introduced to different social classes and learns how social status influenced the way people lived at the beginning of the twentieth century. Although the novel is set in rural Norfolk in the restricted setting of the Maudsleys' home, a rising upper-middle class family, the well-defined social hierarchy of the time is made apparent in the cricket match. Throughout the novel Hartley makes use of dual perspective as Leo at the age of sixty-five tells a story of his stay at Brandham Hall over fifty years previously. This...