Food

**Summary of symbol/motif**

 * The mentioning of food can be used as a device in order to show class, status and reputation in those times (1875 - Victorian Times)**

Quotations and Interpretation
//"Please do not touch the cucumber sandwiches. They are ordered specially for Aunt Augusta"// -Algernon - In those times, upper class people would normally eat cucumber sandwiches

//"Have some bread and butter. The bread and butter is for Gwendolen. Gwendolen is devoted to bread and butter."// -Algernon -The fact that keeping cucumber sandwiches for Aunt Augusta (Lady Bracknell) and letting Gwendolen have bread and butter may suggest that Lady Bracknell has a higher status than Gwendolen who's middle class).

//"Sugar is not fashionable anymore"// and //"Cake is rarely seen at the best houses nowadays"// -Gwendolen -Gwendolen was trying to upset Cecily and is mocking the fact that Cecily serves food like cake and tea with sugar when it is considered out of fashion. This shows Gwendolen's shallowness as she is focused solely on maintaining reputation

//"One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them"// -Algernon -Eating can show manners of that person. Certain types of foods have to be eaten in a certain way.