Stephen works for Bounderby. Blackpool is a good worker who is kind hearted works in Bounderby’s mill. He is in ove with a co-worker, Rachel. He can’t persue her though because he has a drunkard for a wife who won’t leave him alone. In the story, he represents the working class. Blackpool’s response to Bounderby’s helpful "for better or worse", is something that is what I believe to be what the struggling workers that hasn’t made all the right decisions would say. He says that they "are not bonded together for better or worse so fast, but that they can be set free fro’ the misfortnet marriages, an’ marry ower agen." And once Bounderby counters with the idea that divorce costs money, he wishes "the sooner I [he] am dead, the better." Blackpool would later force himself to go to sleep. Working hard sometimes can cause insomnia. He was first dreaming of marriage, not to the one he loves, Rachel, but of someone in general. But the dream takes a different turn and he becomes the center of animosity. This is because he feels that everyone in CokeTown hates him or doesn’t have respect for him. Blackpool never tries to fight Social Darwinism but instead becomes its slave. Blackpool is also the voice of the people when he is peaking to Bounderby. He always is speaking the point of view the workers have. Even when he doesn’t join the union and Bounderby is telling Blackpol how bad these Union workers are. Blackpool says that instead of having parliamentary investigations and statistical reports, dealing with the workers as human beings is the solution. He then tells Bounderby that the workers hate being evaluated and ordered around.

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