Question

Examine and explain how/why Bellamy's description of the carriage and its participants is a metaphor for wealth (or socioeconomic) distribution in late 19th and early 20th century America. How does this metaphor apply to the position of the workers in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory?

Answer 1

Workers are machines.

Step-by-step explanation:

This metaphor apply to the position of the workers in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory shows that the workers are the machine that make money for their owners and not more than that. If the owner consider them humans then they will take certain measures in the factory so that their lives will be protected. The owner of the factory considered them machines whose lives have no value.