The Class Game

Question 1

Overall messages

Answer 1

Persona who is working class challenged the views of an unknown middle class listener - anger - pride

Question 2

Context

Answer 2

‘Reference is made to the Wirral which is the middle class suburb of Liverpool.
1981 by Mary Casey 
-contemporary so the persona feels confident enough to mock the Listener who is from a higher class

Question 3

Liverpudlian dialect

Answer 3

‘Tara ‘ to me ‘ma’ instead of ‘bye mummy dear’?’- shows her pride

Question 4

Tone change

Answer 4

‘How can you tell what class I’m from’ to ‘why do you care what class I’m from?’ - anger towards how they are stereotyped and judged based on what class they come from.

Question 5

Same differences

Answer 5

‘Sitting in your patio (we have a yard)?’ - Same thing however they call them differently - differences in classes

Question 6

Repetition

Answer 6

‘How can you tell what class I’m from? - challenges the stereotype and makes it significant when her tone changes

Question 7

Order of things

Answer 7

‘A docker is me brother ‘ - job comes before the person which created a sense of pride

Question 8

Rhythm and meter

Answer 8

Dramatic monologue - a speech from the perspective of the persona to make it more personal .

Question 9

Labelling and judging

Answer 9

‘Have I a label on me head, and another on me bum?’ - how they feel labelled and judged

Question 10

Mocking the way they talk

Answer 10

‘Does it stuck in your gullet like a sour plum?’ - referencing the idea that the higher class shave a sour plum in their mouth suggesting the way they talk is strange .