He must have been wealthy; it was never clear where his income came from. He spent days just lounging around in his pajamas and smoking jacket.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think the class structure from his time and place fully translates to America’s current class structure.

+ Definitely

And, the Holmes character-able to pass himself off as anyone, crossing lines of class, race, and gender, and indulging in disreputable habits (addicted to morphine and cocaine if I remember correctly) probably represents the anxieties of a rapidly changing England where the class system was increasingly unstable.

No. In one of the books he used cocaine (a seven percent solution), but he was not addicted to it or morphine.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve always been curious.

Illegal immigrant from Guatemala.

No, that's Paddington, except it was Peru.

Aristocratic. Thus his eccentric behavior.

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think the class structure from his time and place fully translates to America’s current class structure.

+ Definitely

And, the Holmes character-able to pass himself off as anyone, crossing lines of class, race, and gender, and indulging in disreputable habits (addicted to morphine and cocaine if I remember correctly) probably represents the anxieties of a rapidly changing England where the class system was increasingly unstable.

I don’t think the class structure from his time and place fully translates to America’s current class structure.

Middle class gentlemen. I think he speaks of his ancestors being country squires. He went to college (but didn't graduate). He has cultured tastes, including playing the violin.
He needs to share rooms with Watson (who is definitely middle class) in order to make the rent. No evidence that he was upper class, but he's not working class or poor. Definitely middle class in the Victorian class structure.

Anonymous wrote:I’ve always been curious.

Illegal immigrant from Guatemala.

Classssssssss.... ugh.

Read the f’ n books.

If you had to work those days you were not upper class.

Did you see the means he had at his disposal? It is clear he was wealthy but he was far from the upper class. He was by no mans lower class so what is left? Upper middle class.

Upper class dreams.
Bottom shelf palate.

Have you read the books and/or watched the movies and series?

Seriously?

I’ve always been curious.