Sarah Cole

In this story the "Marxist reading" is very easy to understand. Reading the story this way would entail looking for a separation between classes and understanding the social and economic separations between the two classes. Ron takes it to another level and even notes the differences in appearance which he really emphasizes because she is from a lower class. However Sarah is the one who really points out the differences and says that he is better than her. Ron more just notes that he is so much better looking than she is.

Also, it is interesting because these two different people are coming together to both satisfy a need of the other one. “She walked out the door of Osgood's determined to make love to a man much prettier than any she had seen up close before, and I walked out determined to make love to a woman much homelier than any I had made love to before. We were, in a sense, equals.” This shows how the two different worlds or classes use each other to satisfy their needs but yet they still remain in two different places, only because Ron was afraid of what society would think if he were with her.

I found this assignment also interesting because it reminded me of an earlier class where we discussed the professor who wrote the names on the board for one class as an assignment and one class as a poem. You telling us it is a Marxist reading or to read it in that way makes us all try to fit it into this ideology even if it wasn't necessarily one.