The American middle class's faith in personal comfort as an end in itself is, in essence, a denial of life. And it has been imposed upon American writers and playwrights strongly enough to cut them off from their deeper sources.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.
Comfort came in with the middle classes.
A middle class is so important to a society that its value cannot be overestimated.
When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.
The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I've met, and think they're incredibly witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there.
The real people who suffer when business is leaving or not successful are the people in the middle class.
Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
The United States is a country where practically everybody considers himself middle class.
Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.
It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.