On the topic of new money, we have the character Mr. Bounderby in mind. He is the perfect example of the new aged money maker in this story. Mr. Bounderby makes his money off of the factories; the same way most of the people who lived in the town of Coke had made their money. One could also consider Mr. Bounderby to be apart of the high class. He is a very wealthy man compared to most of the people from Coke Town. Mr. Bounderby was also a very well known and respected person in his community. Yet, don’t let his money fool you, because Mr. Bounderby came from the so called, “gutter”. He was not from a very wealthy family when growing up as a child, but as he got older and wiser; Mr. Bounderby became a hard working citizen and ma

As I stated in the beginning of the paper, the story is all based upon the factories and the life styles of the people who ran them. There was only one thing on the minds of these people, which is money. It seemed that one must have money first before they can make money or it was very hard to make your way up the totem pole. Women were also looked down upon unless they were rich or had power of some sort; other wise they were house wives of the rich men. Last but not least, the tone had this notion of letting things be the way they are, so do not worry unless one has to.

Another great example of a middle class person is Mr. Stephen Blackpool. Mr. Blackpool was a very hard working middle class person who held no grudges against anybody and did not want to harm anyone. Mr. Blackpool seems to be the type of person who was there to comfort or explain to somebody why things might have happened.

We also seem to see some sort of remorse from Mr. Tom Gradgrind for not listening to his daughter’s real feelings. He had only thought about what he had thought was best for his daughter and not what she might have wanted. After Tom realizes what he had done to his daughter Louisa, he dies.

The tone of the story is based on the life style of the people. The tone is sort of set on this basis of letting things be the way they are. In other words, the people seem to go with the flow of things as the way they are. If things are going the way they always go, then why should they change them? That is the tone that they show

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