From "The Red-Headed League" by Arthur Doyle is a short story of Sherlock Holmes investigates a case about the Red-Headed League. The story starts out with a man name Jabez Wilson a pawnbroker comes to Holmes for help about his previous job with the Red-Headed League. Wilson lives with his young assistance name Vincent Spaulding that introduced him to the job with the only requirement is to have red hair. After gotten the job Wilson had to report to Mr. Duncan Ross each day at the Red-Headed League building and copy the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Then one day he showed up to work and there was a sign that said the league is dissolved, after can 't find any information about Mr. Ross or the league he came to Holmes for help. So after the Mr.
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The people from the lower class are viewed as less honorable due to their jobs and background. The upper class usually looks down on the people in the lower class as if they are uncivilized and much less of a human to the people in the upper class. Doyle was able to show this to the reader by a comparison between the upper class and lower class in this story. He uses Holmes and Watson to represent the upper class of the society. Holmes is a consulting detective while Watson is a doctor, so their jobs involve more in critical thinking and little to none manual labor. In the text Holmes never asks for his payment or he wants any at the end of the story, he only asks for a refund for a few expenses on the case. When we look at Watson, he would rather follow his friend around day and night than attending to his practice because he thinks it is boring. Anyone that read this story can see that these two don 't need or care about money. They are wealthy enough that they can spare time to do these investigations as a hobby. On the other hand when we look at Mr. Wilson, Doyle describes him much different than he what he did with Holmes and Watson. Holmes 's description of Wilson is "an average commonplace British tradesman, obese, pompous and slow." This look down on the man with the insult of fat and stupid, …show more content…
This means that more people are rising out from poverty and into the middle class while the people from the upper class starting lose their hold of wealth and moving down the social ladder. A critic of this story noted this idea in her essay, "Holmes serves his 'race ' by trying to uphold a system which established identity and economic worth through heredity, even as his clients draw their wealth from other races in other lands. In the age of imperialism, it is a losing battle." (Otis) This tells us the upper class is no longer an exclusive club that belongs only to a few families that passes down their wealth from generation to generation. The poor people are starting to rise up and better themselves in society. We can see that through Doyle description of Wilson and his past. From Holmes 's deduction Wilson was a carpenter on a ship trades goods between China and Britain. We can assume that Wilson got his carpenter skills from his father that passed down to him and he probably took dangerous sailor job because it paid better. He also has this mentality of always trying to move up the social ladder. We can see this through first he was able to save up enough no longer work as a carpenter on a ship but was able to afford a pawn shop where he no longer required
The people from the lower class are viewed as less honorable due to their jobs and background. The upper class usually looks down on the people in the lower class as if they are uncivilized and much less of a human to the people in the upper class. Doyle was able to show this to the reader by a comparison between the upper class and lower class in this story. He uses Holmes and Watson to represent the upper class of the society. Holmes is a consulting detective while Watson is a doctor, so their jobs involve more in critical thinking and little to none manual labor. In the text Holmes never asks for his payment or he wants any at the end of the story, he only asks for a refund for a few expenses on the case. When we look at Watson, he would rather follow his friend around day and night than attending to his practice because he thinks it is boring. Anyone that read this story can see that these two don 't need or care about money. They are wealthy enough that they can spare time to do these investigations as a hobby. On the other hand when we look at Mr. Wilson, Doyle describes him much different than he what he did with Holmes and Watson. Holmes 's description of Wilson is "an average commonplace British tradesman, obese, pompous and slow." This look down on the man with the insult of fat and stupid, …show more content…
This means that more people are rising out from poverty and into the middle class while the people from the upper class starting lose their hold of wealth and moving down the social ladder. A critic of this story noted this idea in her essay, "Holmes serves his 'race ' by trying to uphold a system which established identity and economic worth through heredity, even as his clients draw their wealth from other races in other lands. In the age of imperialism, it is a losing battle." (Otis) This tells us the upper class is no longer an exclusive club that belongs only to a few families that passes down their wealth from generation to generation. The poor people are starting to rise up and better themselves in society. We can see that through Doyle description of Wilson and his past. From Holmes 's deduction Wilson was a carpenter on a ship trades goods between China and Britain. We can assume that Wilson got his carpenter skills from his father that passed down to him and he probably took dangerous sailor job because it paid better. He also has this mentality of always trying to move up the social ladder. We can see this through first he was able to save up enough no longer work as a carpenter on a ship but was able to afford a pawn shop where he no longer required