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Society and Class
The Jets and the Sharks may be dueling over their particular little piece of turf, but in point of fact they're all losers in that game. They're all poor. They're powerless. And while they fight over ownership of those streets, the real forces of power—the cops and the higher-ups represented by said cops—remind them that they can get squashed like bugs anytime the Man feels like it. The two gangs in West Side Story are essentially fighting against that as much as they're fighting against each other, and all of them secretly know how it's going to turn out.
The conflict between the gangs comes down to the fact that they're both have nothing going for them and no hope for change.
The battle between the gangs is largely fueled by ethnic conflict.
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