Theory of Character and Characterization

easily. ―The point is that money alone doesn‘t define them, for the way they have their money is larg ely what matters‖ Fussell, 1992: 29. Therefore, there is one other important thing supporting the division of class, it is how they get their money which refers to their jobs in society, what kind of job they have is more important than the amount of money they get out of it. According to Fussell, people are divided into 9 divisions of class based on the way they earn their money. There are top out-of-sight, upper, upper-middle, middle, high proletarian, mid-proletarian, low proletarian, destitute, and bottom out-of-sight. Top out-of-sight people refer to those who inherit money and business from their parents or grand- grandparents. ―The top out-of-sight class Rockefellers, Pews, DuPonts, Mellons, Fords, Vanderbilts lives on inherited capital entirely‖ Fussell, 1992: 29. People from the top out-of-sight group do not earn their own money from their own effort and struggle, yet they inherit the wealth or called as rich- born. Besides, they are also ‗invisible‘ and hardly recognized. Their houses are never seen from the street or road. They like to hide away deep in the hills or way off on Greek or Caribbean islands which they tend to own, safe, for the moment, from envy and its ultimate attendants, confiscatory taxation and finally expropriation. Fussell, 1992: 30 Their invisibility is derived from their attempt to not to expose themselves in richness in public. They tend to hide somewhere where people cannot easily find them. Upper class refers to those who inherit money but also earn it and they are visible. ―First, although it inherits a lot of its money, it earns quite a bit too, usually from some attractive, if slight, work,…‖ Fussell, 1992: 31. The upper class people, though they are rich-born, they still have to work to earn money to maintain their life. Their jobs are varied, such as controlling banks and historic corporations, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Foreign Policy Association, and the Senate Fussell, 1992: 31. They have high positions, often considered the prestigious ones because they occupy the highest place and have control towards others. Their presence is visible because their presence can be seen from their houses. Upper class people‘s houses are big and have a lot of bedrooms, showing their social status as the upper class which easily recognized by the society. Upper-middle class refers to those who may inherit money, but suffers from a bourgeois sense of shame that live on the earnings of others is not quite nice Russell, 1992: 33. It means that upper-middle class is one level lower than upper class. Their jobs have more dependency on others, they participate in some fields like, law, medicine, oil, or selling and buying artworks, but still they earn money a lot. Middle-class refers to those working with specific skills and education background in certain company. They are people working according to their skills and education background, such as the geologist, the computer programmer, or the aeronautical engineer. They earn money from their salary which is much more than the workers. The high proles refers to those working with specific skills and require them to work professionaly. ―The high proles are the skilled workers, craftsmen, like printers‖ Fussell, 1992: 45. Meanwhile, the mid-proles refers to those