All About Forrest Gump
Class: There are a few representations of different class types in this movie. I would say that Forrest Gump was qualified in the middle class at the beginning of the movie and maybe middle/upper class by the end. He was never poor, and never lived in poverty, but he was not necessarily 'rich'. As a child Forrest led a normal childhood life, he had a lovely home always had nice clothes and his mother definitely was able to give him the things he needed. When he became older he had a various number of jobs. Some he did not make much money on, and some he did. In the film he was a grass cutter, and he was in the Army first. He did not make too much money doing these things but he would still be placed in the middle class. Later on in the movie he becomes a spokesperson for a ping pong company, a shrimp boat captain, and an investor in the Apple corporation. While doing these me made quite a large amount of money, he was definitely considered rich at this point. He became so wealthy that he started mowing peoples lawns for free.
Class continued: There were other representations of class in the film as well. Take Forret's good friends Bubba for example, his family was never very weathy. They lived quite in poverty, but when Bubba died, and when Forrest became a shrimp boat captain and gave much of his profit to Bubba's family.
Another example in the film would be Forrest's best friend or girlfriend/wife, Jenny. At the beggining she lived in poverty. During the middle of the film, she was homeless and she just wen't wherever she could get a ride to. By the end of the movie Jenny lived in a middle class apartment and eventually lived with Forrest in his middle/upper class home.