The Class Game

Question 1

Why does Casey often the repeat the phrase “How can you tell what class I’m from?”and what techniques does it use?

Answer 1

Questions the audience by using stereotypes of her identification and class, Rhetorical question and direct address

Question 2

Give an example of a comparison Casey makes between the middle/upper class and the working class

Answer 2

“‘Cos we live in a corpy, not like some

In a pretty little semi, out Wirral way”

Question 3

Why does Casey change from “How can you tell what class I’m from?” to”Why do you care what class I’m from?”

Answer 3

Questions the audience as why they care what class she’s from and why it bothers them, suggests they should ‘get on with their own lives’

Question 4

Why does Mary Casey say “Bread pudding is wet nelly

And me stomach is me belly”

Answer 4

Demonstrates to the audience that this is her reality and uses pride of identity

Question 5

What is meant when Casey says “Or is it because my hands are stained with toil? Instead of soft lily-white with perfume and oil?”

Answer 5

Suggests that the upper class are born into wealth and privilege and therefore use luxuries like perfume, whereas the working class do hard manual labour for their money and thus their hands are stained with the mark of their work