Poem Analysis: Sharon Olds On The Subway

Sharon Olds in "On the Subway" writes the poem to contrast the lives of a Caucasian woman and an African American boy. It displays how the narrator realizes the bonds they share because of their fear for each other.
She starts off by describing the boy as they face each other. She says he has the casual look of a mugger while she's wearing a fur coat making her seem like the victim. Here they contrast as him looking like a mugger puts him in the lower class. On the other hand, she wears a fur coat of a skinned animal which makes it expensive putting her in the higher class. His life isn't as great as hers as he has the looks that he has to fight in the world to survive.
The whole story mainly contrasts two things blacks and whites. The shoes