Main Message

• The poem challenges the reader to think about the ‘game’ of judging others based on social class. The ‘game’ is an ironic reference to something that is actually quite serious and potentially
• Class conflict, fear of the working class, disapproval of the way they speak, where they live, where the work etc.

  Casey is proud of her class and very defiant in this poem, she wants to shock the middle classes, accusatory tone but light-hearted too, shows that class difference will still exist in Modern England.