The little cottages of the working class people were in a lane at the bottom of a steep rise that led up to the Sheridans’ house. A broad road separated the area from where the rich lived. Depicted as ‘eyesore’ and little mean dwellings’ in the text, the cottages were chocolate brown in colour. In the garden patches there were nothing but cabbage stalks, sick hens and tomato cans. Even the smoke coming out of their chimneys was described as poverty-stricken, Washerwomen, sweeper, cobbler etc lived there. The Sheridans as children were forbidden to step foot into that area as the people living there use offensive language. Against the Sheridans’ luxurious home, the working class neighbourhood, portrayed as dark and sordid, represents social inequality and the neglected parts of the society.