"His story symbolizes both his ambiguous social status during the play, and the possibility of his social mobility"
Think about it. Gwendolyn doesn't love him because of this, he's quite open about this story, so that's not demonstrating anything. And this is not played up for sympathy. This leaves us with one option.
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Oof, I feel you bro! I have all A's right now, but I'm about to receive zeros on 102 late assignments, which will barely leave me passing. I'm terrified for testing T-T
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