Blog # 2: post due Sunday, Feb. 2,  5:00 pm; comments due Monday, Feb. 3, 5 pm.

1. How is Jaffe's theory -- that "scenes of sympathy"  unsettle and consolidate middle-class identity -- relevant to North and South? Are there ways in which her ideas would distort or misunderstand cross-class encounters in the novel?

2. How would you describe Felix's class position in Felix Holt? Esther's? How do you know, and what difference does it make?