John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright, who won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932. He came from a newly rich upper middle-class commercial family. Trained as a lawyer, he switched to writing as soon as his father died. His works mainly dealt with the social class system prevalent at that time, especially focusing on the upper middle class. He portrayed his characters sympathetically but highlighted their narrow-minded snobbishness and suffocating moral values. He also criticized the acquisitive tendencies of this class as morally wrong.