# Social Hierarchy and Exclusion in The Gold Bat

> Theme guide for The Gold Bat by P. G. Wodehouse.

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.

## Where it surfaces

- [Mill Receives Visitors](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_gold_bat_se/chapters/v-mill-receives-visitors): Rand-Brown's exclusion from the first fifteen and his resentment toward Barry highlight social tensions.

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