Beggarland “Beggarland” is a British short story written by Alan Sillitoe. The short story was first published in the 1990s in a women’s magazine called “Women and Home”. The short story is mainly about a mother called Jane that needs to finish her book during the summer, so she hires a nanny from the north called Greta to watch her two kids Ben and Angela. Greta takes the kids out regularly and the kids get attached to her. One day Jane stumbles upon a beggar and two kids in the underground and discovers that it is Greta and that she has been taking the kids down in the underground for some time to beg for money. This is insulting in Jane’s opinion, but surprisingly the story ends happily as Jane forgives Greta. Two very different worlds collide in a matter of short time during the story and this could very well be the short story’s theme. Poverty versus wealth would also be very fitting, as the two worlds, which are being represented by respectively Greta and Jane, are economically and financially different, and has different views on life. The story takes place in London or in a smaller city close to London. It is not described specifically where in England the characters are. It is also not made clear to the reader which time or year the story takes place in, but it seems like the short story takes place in the 90s, as the story is written in that year and it has a few modern aspects such as the underground metro etc. The story takes place in an upper-class environment and the main character Jane seems like a woman with a financially stable life. An example of this could be the fact that she can afford an au pair, because this is not something everybody can afford to have in his or her house. The language in the short story is in many ways very informal and has a lot of direct speech. Already in the first sentence the reader is met with the