The concept “genteel poverty” is where white-collar employees who earn only subsistence salaries lived close to the economic edge but look stylish like of the upper middle classes would. In the story “The Stolen party” written by Liliana Heker, Rosaura and her mother was part of the population that was consider genteel poverty. Rosaura’s mother was a maid for the upper class family that was throwing the birthday party. Rosaura’s mother being a part of the ranks, these “white-collar employees anxiously strove to assemble a stylistic affinity to wealth” (186). These “white-collar employees” eager to try in fit in a formal association to “wealth” (186). With Rosaura trying to assimilate with the family by dressing and acting her best to be a
