The image of the upper ("crust") class family - "the white clothed ones from tennis clubs"- is meant to portray another ideal of a family, however, the reality is the "boy puking his heart out in the Gents" showing that the family is just as dysfunctional as the rest of society. ... Larkin believed that in order for people to understand the real world, you must show them reality and they would truly understand rather than accept the idealistic form of the "Essential Beauty." ...

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