Society is a lot like a pyramid. A pyramid has a wide base, and it gets thinner and thinner, until it gets to the very peak. The peak of the pyramid is usually the point of emphasis to the eye. The base represents the high amount of people in the lower class, while the peak represents the low amount of people in the highest class. The people in the lower classes reap no benefits and get little to no attention, while the upper classes thrive on the incentives and attention that that status is given. Even though the lower classes carry the burdens of the higher ones, without its wide base, the pyramid would end up being a smorgasbord of dispersed blocks. In Katherine Mansfield’s “The Doll’s House,” the dollhouse is shown as being horrid on the
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She wanted to demonstrate how the dollhouse was wretched and dirty on the outside, while the inside was beautiful, showing that the attractiveness of the Kelvey children was almost non-existent, but their inner traits contain ravishing character. Just like the dollhouse, the Kelvey children’s clothes seem to have an array of different colors and materials: “The truth was they were dressed in ‘bits’ given to her by the people for whom she worked. Lil, for instance, who was a stout, plain child, with big freckles, came to school in a dress made from a green art-serge table-cloth of the Burnells ', with red plush sleeves from the Logans ' curtains.” The conglomerations of materials are not pleasant to the eye, especially to the eyes to of someone of a higher class. In this story, not only do the higher classes use their eyes to judge on the quality of a person, but they also use other sensory organs as well, especially their nose. The odor of the paint on the house smells repulsive, which suggests that Mansfield may be alluding to a possible unattractive, fowl scent that the Kelveys could have, which reveals some irony considering Mrs. Kelvey works as a washerwoman: “. . . the smell of paint was quite enough to make any one seriously ill, in Aunt Beryl 's opinion.” Alternatively, the interior of house is seen as luxurious with its golden frames with red carpets and chairs.
She wanted to demonstrate how the dollhouse was wretched and dirty on the outside, while the inside was beautiful, showing that the attractiveness of the Kelvey children was almost non-existent, but their inner traits contain ravishing character. Just like the dollhouse, the Kelvey children’s clothes seem to have an array of different colors and materials: “The truth was they were dressed in ‘bits’ given to her by the people for whom she worked. Lil, for instance, who was a stout, plain child, with big freckles, came to school in a dress made from a green art-serge table-cloth of the Burnells ', with red plush sleeves from the Logans ' curtains.” The conglomerations of materials are not pleasant to the eye, especially to the eyes to of someone of a higher class. In this story, not only do the higher classes use their eyes to judge on the quality of a person, but they also use other sensory organs as well, especially their nose. The odor of the paint on the house smells repulsive, which suggests that Mansfield may be alluding to a possible unattractive, fowl scent that the Kelveys could have, which reveals some irony considering Mrs. Kelvey works as a washerwoman: “. . . the smell of paint was quite enough to make any one seriously ill, in Aunt Beryl 's opinion.” Alternatively, the interior of house is seen as luxurious with its golden frames with red carpets and chairs.