Dickens shows that although communication between the two sides is rarely shown, the classes are connected to each other and would collapse without each other. “By revealing the real links between people and classes who suspect they have no connection, Dickens shows that these two worlds, separated from each other in thought, are physically close, each involved in the other” (Magill 4797). Multiple accounts in the novel show relationships in which classes survive with mutual help. The upper class is in control due to its power over the lower class, but without the proletariat the aristocrats cannot survive. “the essential links between wealth are also figured in the hypocrisy and amorality of a fashionable environment” (Holmes 1). Throughout the novel, Dickens constantly links the lower class and the upper class to show the fact that regardless of the mutual disgust, without the other society would collapse. An example of this would be that it occurs through the boatmen, who are poor, ignorant, and incapacitated men who search the river to find goods such as garbage, wood, and any valuable item to sell. In the novel's early chapters, the waterman "Gaffer" Hexam finds the body of an aristocrat, asking for help by sending more upper-class figures to investigate the body. The two classes separated by thought are constantly in conflict with each other. Through the intermarriage of Lizzie Hexam and Eugene Wrayburn, another connection develops between the upper and lower classes. Their marriage is a metaphor for the association that two castes have with each other. Although at the beginning their relationship is not entirely visible and can be easily ignored and denied due to social differences, but when Wray... at the center of the card... comes to terms with society through his taking into tour of the obsessive desire for wealth, the way both halves of civilization live and the negative impact of wealth that corrupts and destroys humanity. Works Cited Dickens, Charles. Our mutual friend. London: Penguin, 1997. Print.Hardy, Barabara. British writers, article: Charles Dickens. New York: Sons of Charles Scribner, 1982. PrintHolmes, Martha Stoddard. "Dickens, Charles: our mutual friend." Database of literature, art and medicine. New York University School of Medicine, September 9, 1999. Web. March 29, 2014. Leone, Bruno. Readings on Charles Dickens. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1998. Print.Magill, Frank N. Masterplots Revised Second Edition Volume 8. Pasadena: Salem Press, 1996. Print.Yancey, Diane. Life in Charles Dickens' England. San Diego: Lucent Books, 1999. Print.