Impress to Regress

Towards the beginning of the story "The real Thing" the Narrator has a upbeat personality being very impressed by the lifestyle and the way the Monarchs dressed and the way they looked. Over time throughout the story this view changes, at the beginning of the story he can see that the upper class Monarchs although older are very good looking people and would make very good models compared to that of the models he had from the lower class. He was very wrong though he found that those in the lower class were more opted to do things due to there lack of prior experience with the luxurious of life. After using these models he see's his work directly effected but them causing his workmanship to go down. After seeing the fall of people he once held to high standards he was grateful for the way in which he lived. He finishes the story with "If it be true I am content to have paid the price-- for the memory" because the Monarchs show him how it is too completely fall to the lowest possible place and still try to do anything they can to be successful and support each other.