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Arundhati Roy depicts class antagonism and class exploitation in terms of caste and she cleverly makes a contrast between touchable and exploitation and oppression of the have nots by the upper classes. In fact, The God of Small Things encompasses the poor, the exploited and socially rejected people of the Kerala society: they are misfits, outcastes, factory workers, and low caste people or untouchables. The God of The Small Things makes a scathing hit on the patriarchal nations of Kerala's Touchable society; the high caste Hindus and the high caste Syrian Christians. The oldest character in the novel Pappachi is a male chauvinist and wife beater who has trouble in coping with the humiliation of retirement.