Lower-classes are less likely to own expensive items as much as higher-classes may have, and many forms of society consist of each class; therefore, a lower-class member may be an outsider within a group of higher-class people. The short story The Doll’s House by Katherine Mansfield, describes a situation in which a wealthy family owns a dollhouse for everyone to see, except the lowest class children, the Kelveys. As told from a third point of view, “Many of the children, including the Burnells, were not allowed even to speak to them. They walked past the Kelveys with their heads in the air, and as they set the fashion in all matters of behavior, the Kelveys were shunned by everybody… So they were the daughters of a washerwoman and a gaolbird. Very nice company for other people’s children! And they looked it” (Mansfield
Lower-classes are less likely to own expensive items as much as higher-classes may have, and many forms of society consist of each class; therefore, a lower-class member may be an outsider within a group of higher-class people. The short story The Doll’s House by Katherine Mansfield, describes a situation in which a wealthy family owns a dollhouse for everyone to see, except the lowest class children, the Kelveys. As told from a third point of view, “Many of the children, including the Burnells, were not allowed even to speak to them. They walked past the Kelveys with their heads in the air, and as they set the fashion in all matters of behavior, the Kelveys were shunned by everybody… So they were the daughters of a washerwoman and a gaolbird. Very nice company for other people’s children! And they looked it” (Mansfield