Class Distinctions

Because Ellie and Mike have inhabited such different worlds as dictated by their socio-economic standings, the differences between the rich and the poor are often discussed as they try to understand one another. As a result of their standings in life, Ellie and Mike were raised differently. They have different outlooks about life and different ways in which they are responsible to the people who raised them. They are warned that no good will come as a result of a marriage between two people who are so different but it is not until it is learned that Mike killed Ellie in order to take away her money that the reader understands just how incompatible the two were.

Both Mike and Ellie have had tragic family backgrounds but Ellie’s background left her rich while Mike’s left him common. Ellie’s mother had died when...