George’s relationship to his fiance Frieda is a very open relationship, where George seems to be very honest about what he does. Their relationship also doesn’t show the complications of being engaged with someone, but rather seem quite into each other. The fact that he is marrying a girl from a well-to-do family shows that class is still somewhat relevant in this situation. George also has a very peculiar relationship with his pen pal. In comparison to George, the pen pal seems to lead an unsatisfactory life, and the way George talks about him makes it seem like he enjoys gloating about his successes, even though he claims he doesn’t. George constantly compares the success of his business and home to the failure of the friend, whose business is barely afloat and who prefers to lead the bachelor life, most likely not by choice. The friend threatens the foundation of Freida and George’s relationship, because he represents everything that George isn’t. Freida perceives this relationship between these 2 men as weird, because they are complete opposites, and the way it is described seems like George only writes to this friend out of pity. The friend also represents failure and the bachelor lifestyle, which Frieda believes is a reason this friendship shouldn’t exist, especially when George is engaged. She believes an engaged man shouldn’t associate himself with people like the friend, and says she is offended that not only the friendship exists, but that George is always honest with the friend with everything but their engagement, and that they are both at fault.. George also explains that he refuses to change for the improvement of the friendship, and that the fact that they are complete opposites doesn’t mean he has to stoop to the friends level.