"A Women of No Importance" is sometimes to be considered the weakest of Wilde's plays because the drama doesn't start till the second half of the second act. The whole first part is just a conversation between the upperclass. Lytton Strachey gave a curious interpretation of the relationship between Lord Illingworth and his new-found son Gerald. In a letter to Duncun Grant he described the relationship to be that Illingworth had homosexual thoughts towards his son. Strachey's thoughts probably came from the fact that Wilde had recently been exposed as a homosexual as well.
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Wilde has his own criticism towards the upper class throughout his play. With his wit, he shows the upper class for who they are. He seems to be satirising upper class Victorian society in its hypocrisy. He shows that the upper class believe themselves to be of higher status because of the title that their name has.
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