The Tortula Curtain

Class is what differentiates people from one another. The levels of working class, middle class, upper-middle class and upper class classify men and women into certain stereotypes. In T.C. Boyle’s The Tortilla Curtain we see the story of two men and how one man struggles to do everything he possibly can to survive and provide for his family and another man with everything to satisfy his wants and needs. T.C. Boyle’s The Tortilla Curtain can be read as a story about class relations. Class similarities and differences between the Rincons and the Mossbachers will be discussed in the following to illustrate this point. Driving through the Topanga Canyon, Delaney Mossbacher, an upper-middles class American is abruptly shocked by the fact that