Working-Class Ideology

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I chose the theme, “working-class ideology is different from the middle-class ideology.” This particular theme is accurate because it best captures the overall meaning of the story. In the story, the doctor is perceived in a way of being a lower class. The doctor becomes frustrated with the patient parents because, of how they treat him. William Carlos Williams, in the story “The Use of Forces,” the doctor states “when I arrived I was met by the mother… very clean and apologetic who merely said, Is this the doctor?” (paragraph 2). This quote shows how the lady and the doctor are, from two different classes. The lady also questions the doctor, as if, he was not the doctor. A sense of a higher class is risen from this particular segment. Throughout

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