Oppressive Marxism is a political and economic theories that separate someone from their group or class. The short story “A Rose for Emily”, by William Faulkner, shows a great example of Oppressive Marxism. Miss Emily is oppressed after the incident of her rich father's death. Her father never wanted Miss Emily to have a husband so when he passed away, she found a man she was drawn to. His murder, being the result of her being drawn to him. When the story kicks off, it starts off as being in Miss Emily’s house after her funeral. “The men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiousity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old manservant” (1). Her house represents the old south
