In the passage, "George Odger's Funeral" by Henry James, published on July 1877 in Lippincott's Magazine, the aristocrat sees the funeral as a "grotesque" view on a "magnificent" day. It is the mourning ceremony of George Odger's passing, a humble man who intended to help the common itinerant people of England if he won a place in government. James wasn't fond of a poor man running for a chair in government. He saw it as insulting and disgusting. Henry James' diction portrays his loathsome feelings towards the ceremony in action. The Piccadilly man calls it a "striking collection" for a man who "knocked in vain" to doors that only opened to "golden keys". James identifies the lesser class as you would to a herd of mosquitoes
