In the short story of “The Masque of the Red Death”, the author Edgar Allan Poe tells a story about a self righteous prince named Prospero that invited the upperclassmen to a masque ball in his palace and leaves the country folk to die. Socioeconomic status is a very vital to the Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, “The Masque of the Red Death”, but the real reason here is that socioeconomic status affects who lives and survives the Red Death. The essay will answer the question with two paragraphs that are two reasons on how does socioeconomic status affect if one survives or falls victim to the Red Death. Socioeconomic status effects on who survives or falls victim to the Red Death because Prince Prospero invited the upperclassmen into his