Social Hierarchy and Exclusion

The school's social structure is evident in the treatment of day boys versus boarders, the power of prefects, and the bullying that the League originally sought to combat.

Rand-Brown's exclusion from the first fifteen and his resentment toward Barry highlight social tensions.

Social Hierarchy and Exclusion is one of the patterns The Gold Bat by P. G. Wodehouse returns to. The chapter notes above are from this edition’s companions — open those chapters to see how the book stages the idea rather than treating the theme as a slogan.