Three stories about class relations

Many of the stories in the anthology 50 Great Short Stories concern class relations, which is not surprising as we could say the same about almost all literature, even though some deny or overlook the importance of class relations and class conflict in literature, comedy especially. Three of the stories show three aspects of the stance of the author (and editor of this anthology?) toward social class and class conflict. Take Henry James's story Brooksmith, about which I've posted earlier: In this story the narrator reflects on the great days of the past when he attended a literary salon in London, and the importance of the eponymous butler who made the atmosphere just right and, upon the death of the host of the salon, decline of the butler's life into illness and poverty - all written ostensibly as an appreciation of the butler and his importance but we can see the naivete and even the cruelty of the narrator (and his cohort) who go on w/ their lives and do nothing to help the poor man who all deem so important and unfortunate. A second story, the surprisingly good The Curfew Tolls by the now mostly forgotten Stephen Vincent Benet: In this epistolary story the narrator writes to his sister - this is the 1700s in England - about a man he meets while both are recuperating at a coastal spa who laments that he could have been a great general had he only been born to a life of some privilege, like the narrator. The narrator's description of the man makes him out to be odd, obsessed, angry, and almost deranged - yet what the would-be general is saying is absolutely correct: class status plays a huge role in success and opportunity, then and now. And the narrator does, toward the end of the story, seem to recognize the distance in privilege between their two lives: the would-be general was born into the wrong time, place, and class (far before his rightful time …). Third: Clarence Day's story, Father Wakes Up the Village, a supposed comedy (Day was famous long ago for the Life with Father series) about his father raising hell in his Westchester town when the ice man skipped a delivery on an especially hot day. This story is contemptuous and tries to get laughs out of the discomfort and abuse the father inflicts on those in no position to tell him to f. off.