Analyzing Degas's 'The Serious Customer'

In the print; The Customer, Degas put the male customer as someone who is not really emotionally happy to be in the brothel. What could be read about this is that he put his own feelings about women into the print, figure twelve. However, this is not the case because he made a distance in these prints, i.e. The Serious Customer; where there are customers featured in them and he wanted them not be think that he was featuring himself in them, figure six. He didn’t want the viewer to read that he was putting himself in the print. The customers in this print; is wearing a low hat and would make him belong in the lower middle class, not the upper middle class of which Degas was raised in and belonged to.
These two series of art work that he did