The Transformation Of Class And Occupational Structure Of...

At this time, the descendant of Mathew Maule, Holgrave, lives with Hepzibah in the decrepit mansion. However, unlike Hepzibah, Maule is healthy and thriving during the industrialization. With the social change of the nineteenth century, Maule is given the opportunity to become more than the past would have ever allowed his ancestors, â€Å"[who were] generally poverty-stricken; always plebeian and obscure; working with unsuccessful diligence at handicrafts† (Hawthorne 15). In Colonel Pyncheon’s time, the Maule family was in the poor â€Å"plebian† class and easily erasable by the Colonel. Now Maule not only lives in the Pyncheon mansion but is prospering better than Hepzibah. Holgrave’s occupation is also different from his ancestor’s carpentry work. He is a daguerreotypist; the first profession to successfully create photographs. Melanie Archer, author of Class Formation in Nineteenth-century America: The Case of the Middle Class, states that â₠¬Å"in the nineteenth century†¦The development of the middle class is rooted in the transformation of class and occupational structure† (3). Holgrave’s profession coincides with his and the emerging middle class’s progressive personalities and drive. Hawthorne utilizes the Maule family to contrast the aristocratic notions, to demonstrate the ever evolving America within the Maule family and to illustrate that, â€Å"the middle class comprised not only a significant segment of the nineteenth-century urban population, but that it was influential inShow MoreRelatedThe Theory Of Crime Theory1329 Words   |  6 Pageslower class status are pressured into crime when they are prevented from achieving cultural goals like monetary success or middle-class status through legitimate status. Among the classic strain theorists the best known is Robert K. Merton. 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