The Comstocks belonged to the most dismal of all classes,the middle-middle class,the landless gentry.In their miserable poverty they had not even the snobbish consolation of regarding themselves as an 'old' family fallen on evil days.....
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The description of the Comstocks is filled with mocking irony:
“the most dismal of all classes”
“miserable poverty”
“not even the snobbish consolation…”
The writer is not simply sad. He is ridiculing the pretensions and social position of the “middle-middle class.” The phrase “snobbish consolation” especially shows sarcasm. The humour is sharp and critical, not light-hearted. That makes the tone bitterly humorous i.e. humour mixed with criticism.
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