The ignorance of the bases of the catholicism on the part of the personage is put in evidence of sarcastic way. The priest creates verses for Don Corpus Christie thinking it santo and a sacrament not leaving about clear his indifference in relation to the Christianity: & n bsp; Shepherds, it is not pretty joke, & n bsp; & n bsp; That today he is the gentleman San Corpus Christie? 3 the author of the Petty thief uses the picaresque novel to attack the bourgeoisie talks. The main personage, Don the Pablos, serve to propose us that the bourgeois and pcaro are two faces pertaining to a same currency, differentiated solely by the economic condition. The Petty thief is a sectarian book, his primary target is to demonstrate that the social metamorphosis of the Spain of century XVII is the beginning of a society the other way around. In many of his Quevedo productions he has demonstrated his intolerance, for him the new society that turns around the capitals and not chaste it presents/displays like a system that can simply be divided between pcaros with luck and desventurados pcaros: Pcaros has with luck which I meet & n bsp; and pcaros there is no4. The Petty thief is a true testimony of the point of view of an aristocratic one in relation to the structural changes of the Spanish society of century XVII. Paul Price often expresses his thoughts on the topic.

For Quevedo this new society appears like a system in which the cleverness and the money replace honour and the moral producing a crisis of Spanish values and identity. The maximum exponent of this alteration is I talk, that comes represented in different personages from the novel beginning by the protagonist. The eventful journeys of Don the Pablos serve to demonstrate the techniques of survival of the new society that is based on the industry. The political relation between the writer and the power trasluce in the work, demonstrating the distrust of the author towards the new conditions politician-partner them that entrevn through indultos, commercial representations, financings.