The strain of having limited and insecure affluence is the context of Peter Pan, which opens in the nursery of a house "at the top of a rather depressed street in Bloomsbury- (87). The house is so nondescript that Barrie advises, "you may dump it down anywhere you like, and if you think it was your house you are very probably right- (87). While this is a particular house, belonging to the Darling family, Barrie assumes that members of his audience recognize and identify with it because they, like the Darlings, are middle class: if they don't live in a house like the Darlings', they k...

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