#maybe if Mina and Jonathan were truly poor rather than just middle class the subject would become unavoidable

[thedupshadove]

Perhaps it's just my own environment of heightened class awareness, but I find it interesting--almost jarring, one might say--that Mina understands perfectly clearly the wealth gap between Lucy and herself and just doesn't seem to have any Feelings about it whatsoever. No resentment, no envy, not even really much musing on how it might have shaped their respective experiences. Lucy and her fiancé are rich. My fiancé and I are not. C'est la Vie.