In the story, the situation between Georg and his friend are totally different.  Georg represents the bourgeois class in the society. Firstly, in the business, Georg is successful because his company has to “double the staff, sales had quintupled” and a future sale will be more prosperous. However, his friend’s business has been “stagnating” for quite a while. In the daily life, Georg has been engaged to Fraulein Frieda Brandenfeld, a girl from a wealth family. However, his friend is a bachelor and lives alone and isolation in the Russian. Therefore, Georg is more successful than his friend. Georg and his friend looks like have good relationship because they wrote letter to each other and care about each other. Georg seems to understand and concern about his friend’s situation and tries not to make his friend feel hurt because the different status between them. In fact, Georg is not really care about his friend. Because even though his friend lived in miserable, he still does not want to ask his friend to come back. He assures by himself that his friend would feel embarrassed and remind him of his failure.  Also, in the story, Georg seems to not want to tell his friend about his engagement to a girl from a wealthy family. In fact, he already informed his friend about this thing in three letters. Therefore, Georg flaunts his accomplishments to his friend actually, and the unfortunate life of his friend make him satisfied with his life and accomplishments.

Frieda senses that Georg’s does not want his friend to know their engagement and she wants to let Georg’s friend attend her wedding. However, He told the girl that: “I don’t want to bother him…. But he would feel pressured and put upon, he might envy me and, feeling dissatisfied and incapable of ever overcoming that dissatisfaction.” Georg’s words show that he concerned to his friend’s position, he assures that his friend would envy him and feel dissatisfied to him. However, this is only his imagine because he never wants to know the thinking of his friend. Frieda response that: “if you have such friends, you should never have gotten engaged in the first place.”  In addition, Frieda feel offended may be because she thinks that Georg’s decision not to tell his friends the engagement to her is selfish, and Georg doesn’t care about her. Then, Georg response that: “That’s how I am, and that is how he must take me.” Georg’s words show his selfish and he is not really care about his friend.