It is ironic that while he understands them, they don't understand him. He still wants to work alone although he doesn't communicate with anyone. His old friends avoid meeting him. He suffers from this reaction very much. However, he is a good man honest man and is afraid that the person who talks to him might be singled out from the rest. He speaks to no one during the four days until Bitzer tells him to see his master who wants to ask him about the union's strike. Furthermore, although he doesn't join the union's strike, he doesn't attack the union when his master asks him about the strike. Dickens creates the individual like Stephen to show the problems of the workers. Stephen is generous and unselfish. He doesn't care about the reward that he will receive if he tells his master the truth about the strike. On the contrary, he cares for his fellow workers" feelings and doesn't want them to be in trouble. Therefore, he doesn't want to say anything about the strike. Bounderby presents him to Mr. Harthouse, a specimen of working class. When his master asks him, he refuses to say and tells his master that he has passed the promise. Although his fellow workers ostracize him, he isn't angry but understands them. He disagrees that Bounderby calls the worker's group that they are "rascals and rebel" by saying that they are good, faithful and affectionate to each other. They are polite and comfortable with master. He knows that the workers" virtues that are overlooked always turn to be a mistake, misfortune and trouble. No one understands or cares about him because they are the lower class and live in poverty. Nobody can help him. When he meets Harthouse, the members of parliament, he is worried and knows that a specimen can't help him. Therefore, he is hopeless and complains that the workers are in muddle, which is caused by the economic problems. The rich live comfortably while the poor, the workers, are crowded and live and do the same thing with no chance.
