Room at the Top - The End

After Susan finds out she is pregnant by Joe, Susan's father forces Joe to marry her. Although this is what he started out trying to achieve he realises he no longer wants this. Alice commits suicide and Joe is left distraught.

When Joe tries to drown his sorrows in a bar, the 'working class' men tell Joe 'we don't need your kind round here, stick to your own kind'. This shows that Joe no longer fits into the working class area he was once at home in. However, he has not been fully accepted as a middle class man in Warnley. This shows that he is now lost between the two classes.