Inequality - a Marxist Critisim

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To analyze a literary work using Marxist Criticism, look at the equality of the characters. In “What you Pawn I will Redeam” by Sherman Alexie and “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gillman, the main characters are written and treated differently because of some aspect about them. In “What you Pawn I will Redeam,” Jackson Jackson is a Spokane Indian, a label that defines how people treat him. Similarly, Jane from “The Yellow Wallpaper” had a label, although this time it was woman. Those labels mean that other people treat them differently, but they also treat themselves a certain way because of them. Because Jackson Jackson is a Spokane Indian, and also because he is homeless, people feel sorry for him. The man at the pawn shop agreed to lower the price for the regalia, even if it was only by a dollar, and even gave him twenty dollars to start him towards his goal of 999 dollars. The newspaper man gave him free papers. He also tends to go unnoticed, as it said at the beginning. “We’re common and boring, and you walk right on by us...” But it wasn’t all negative because people he met along the way did pity him, which helped him get from point a to point b. In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Jane is put on a “rest cure” treatment by her husband after she gets depressed after giving birth. Because she is a woman, she is obviously just making herself nervous and needs to sleep and not strain herself and everything will fix itself. Her husband, John, even goes so far as to say that she should “not give way to fancy in the least” because it would be too tiring for her. This is mostly because of when the story was set. It was published in 1892, when women were still considered lesser beings compared to men. If Jane had been a man, her condition probably wouldn’t have been classified “nervous depression” due to the frail nature of her being. The way they are treated

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