# Social Class and Injustice in The Mother

> Theme guide for The Mother by Pearl S. Buck.

The family's poverty renders them powerless against landlords, agents, and the legal system; the mother's inability to seek justice for her daughter's death highlights the systemic exploitation of the rural poor.

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