Megan Foss Love Letters

There are many different parts in the story Love Letters that can be seen through the Marxist theory. The theory dealing with oppression and social class inequality. Throughout most of the story Megan is oppressed by one figure or another. Whether it be the judgmental town’s people or the grocery store tyrants. A big theme in the story is that of language. The higher class people tend to speak in a proper manor and the lower class speak in a less educated tongue. This is one of the main components in the story allowing the reader to see just how oppressed Megan Foss was in her early years of being a junky. Like when Megan says “I was putting in them tablets as information” (Foss 14). The tone in much of the story sounds like that of someone …show more content…
Megan was so poor that when she lost her pair of shoes due to the car being confiscated by the police she was unable to replace them. If someone finds their self walking into almost any convenience or grocery store they will find a simple sign out front. The sign I am speaking of course is no shoes, no service. The story talks about how if she would walk in to the store the people at the front counter would look right threw her. Serving the people that wear either in front of her or behind her. It was like she was invisible and it was all for the reason of her social class standing. Even though she had all of the money required to pay for the items she wanted it was still not good enough. It was like foreign currency. It’s hard to fathom that the grocery store owners cared about her appearance so much that they would refuse an attempt to bring business to their store. Take for example, if a homeless man in raged clothing was walking down the street with a crutch under his arm. The streets are full of people flocking back and forth on both sides of the street. If he were to fall while crossing the street I would say most of the people would walk right by to avoid helping someone that was unattractive to the public. Imagine if the scenario was flipped and the man crossing the street was a well-dressed lawyer in a suit. …show more content…
Language is everything in the eyes of the law and the high members of the court. A key determining factor in a kill or be killed society. It’s interesting to think about what all of her college English students would thing about their professor’s ruff and rocky past. Most of them probably coming from the high life style of growing up with rich parents. In one way it might make them feel like they shouldn’t be anywhere near this ex-felon professor, that had a very lucrative prostitution business in the past. In another way it might give them an incentive to carry out the rest of their life. Finding out that she had went through all of the heroin, jail time, and all of those homeless nights. Knowing that just because someone comes from a low class and is a little different it doesn’t mean that they are stupid. Feeling like if she went through all that she had anything is