When the frustrated worker spits in Halyard’s face, the class division in this society becomes glaringly clear: Halyard is a member of the elite, and the man who spits in his face hates him because of this. Although Halyard has just tried to convince the Shah that the United States operates with an egalitarian social structure, this incident has revealed the deep-seated tensions between the disempowered physical laborers and the upper class. And this, in turn, suggests that the Shah isn’t so far off when he assumes that the entirety of the United States is separated into just two classes: those who are fortunate and those who are not.