Social status between first class and second class were analyzed in The Aristocats.  The opening scene shows how Duchess and her kittens are first class.  Their master, Madame, has a butler and a horse carriage in 1910.  The cats eat homemade food, not canned or from trash cans.  Unlike Madame’s kittens, the Scat Cats are forced to find food from trash cans.  When first meeting O’Malley’s friends, he warns Duchess that his friends are very different from what she is accustomed.  White people today still have anxiety when they drive through areas of the city that have run down houses.

Throughout the movie, Duchess reminds the kittens to use their manners.  When she tells Thomas O’Malley to thank the two women geese for helping him from the river, he reluctantly and sarcastically thanks the two.  Once the geese find out that he is not married to Duchess, the geese judge him and make fun of his appearance.  It is not fair to bully O’Malley because he does not have the resources that the animals from first class families have.  In most Disney movies, “the spectator’s pleasure results from predicting the familiar plot twists and turns and being pleasantly surprised to be both correct and incorrect” (Greenhill14).  Upon the first meeting of Duchess and Thomas O’Malley, the audience knew that the two would end up being lovers.  The point of conflict was the different social classes and the relationship between Madame and Duchess.  O’Malley suggests at many points in the movie that Duchess and the kittens stay with him at his place with the rest of the Scat Cats.  She declines his invitation because she still has a close connection with Madame.  In the end, Duchess and her kittens make it back to Madame and keep O’Malley as a male figure in the house.  The fact that Madame kept the second class O’Malley cat is a surprise to some of the audience.  On the other hand, when the cats are found drinking milk by the milk man, he calls all five of the cats “tramps”.  It seems that through mere association to people within one social class can cause them to join next social status, whether it be up or down on the social ladder.