In this scene, Wonka kicks Charlie out of the factory. Incensed at this enigmatic man for dashing his innocent grandson's hopes, Grandpa Joe takes Charlie by the hand and tells him that they should take their gobstopper to Wonka's enemy, Slugworth. Charlie pauses for a moment, and having made a decision to take the high road, walks back over to Wonka, places the gobstopper deliberately on his former hero's desk, and walks out. The candyman places his hand gently over the prized confection and says, "So shines a good deed in a weary world."

Charlie has won.

Charlie "wins" because he passes Wonka's test, because he is different. Unlike the other children who are caught in the cycle of pecuniary emulation, Charlie reaches for a higher ideal. Precisely because he is willing to give up the opportunity to ascend to the leisure class in a dishonorable way, Charlie does indeed rise.

Thus, he represents the rare individual of the lower class who is able to put an end to the socially retarding cycle of conspicuous consumption and pecuniary emulation. When Charlie decides to return the gobstopper, he conquers human nature, and thus supercedes the hierarchy which controls the other characters in the movie.