Caste clearly has a big influence on how one interprets the story of the Ramayana. This makes sense, given that people of different castes have different experiences and bring different backgrounds to the table when reading the text, and we have seen many times how people read into stories differently depending on their context. In the chapter "A Ramayana of Their Own: Women's Oral Tradition in Telugu," Velcheru Narayana Rao discusses the Ramayana songs sung by both Brahmin women and non-Brahmin women. He first discusses how different women's tellings of the Ramayana differ from men's, articulating how the women's songs tend to focus much more on topics that "interest women," such as "pregnancy, morning sickness, childbirth, the tender love of a husband, the affections of parents-in-law, games played by brides and grooms in wedding rituals" (Rao, 119). Though he is discussing Brahmin women here, it is clear how though they share the same caste as the Brahmin men, the difference in their experiences is evident in which parts of the story they choose to highlight. Not really a caste difference, but certainly a difference indicative of the Hindu hierarchy.
Additionally, Rao discusses how the Brahmin women and non-Brahmin women read into the story differently. He articulates this point nicely but pointing out "the songs sung by the low-caste women seem to reflect their disaffection with the dominant upper-caste masters for whom they work rather than with the men of their own families" because "these singers are doubly oppressed" (Rao 134). The level to which these women have cause for complaint is greater than that of the Brahmin women, because they are not only oppressed within their own caste, but the castes above them as well. There are similar themes that they can pick up on and relate to, but as people considered beneath the upper-caste characters told of in the Ramayana, it is natural that they would have more apathy for characters like Rama.