The Destructors Analysis

Paul’s mother was so preoccupied by then need for money, she even didn’t have space left in her heart for her children. The obsession to stay in the upper class kept her cold for her womb fruits. Her children deprived of the love and the affection of their mother. Paul starved his mother’s heart, which he should have been granted for just being a son and finally died while trying to earn it. She gave more value for money than the kids; the mother sacrifices her love of children for love of money to keep the status quo. Also, as we see in the “The Destructors”, Blackie asked T if he hates The Old Misery and T answered saying “off course I don’t hate him, there had no be fun if I hate him, (Greene 32). Destructing the Old M misery’s house and incinerating his hard-earned money is “fun” for T. Hatred for the upper class overshadowed the T’s moral compass; harming people is “fun” for him. For the gangs, Thomas being the member of the upper class is enough excuse to bring his house down. Over all class stratification sets corrupted moral value.
In summation, harm, vandalism, and destruction are common places in stratified societies.
Class division harbors these evil thought and actions. It sows hostility and emotional detachment between classes. In addition, it roosts moral numbness among groups. As we have seen in the stories above, groups and individuals are reluctant to harm and vandalize members of the other class, because social stratification drives out moral accountability and empathy from people. The upper class uses immoral ways to say in the class (even to earn more) and the lower class uses immoral ways to bring the upper class down therefore they can get out of the feeling of relative
deprivation.