In the Suburbs

What is the author's tone in In the Suburbs by Louis Simpson?

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The tone of the poem is both accusatory and despairing. The speaker establishes the accusatory tone through the use of the second person "you," and he establishes the despairing tone through his insistence that nothing can be changed and that belonging to the middle class is only the most recent form of self-imprisonment.

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In the Suburbs