Thesis for Rufus at the Door

I am going to compare three short story's from the book Rufus at the Door.  These three stories are Rufus at the Door, The Life and Death of Delano Klein, and Dodgers Return, I will show how each of these stories uses some sort of Marxism and I will analyze the author, Jon Hassler's, purpose in using this literary lens.  In the short story, Rufus at the Door, the author uses Marxism by showing how people are not accepted into their community if they are not normal like the rest. They are rather shunned away into an insane asylum.  The Life and Death of Delano Klein shows us Marxism through the main character Delano.  He is a character that was never accepted for who he was throughout life, he was very reserved and kept to himself.  In his society many people created many relationships with others while he did not, they thought that this was out of the ordinary and so did his parents causing him to not be accepted into this society as others were.  The short story Dodgers Return shows how a boy who was not accepted into his social group uses people to climb that ladder in society that he was at the bottom of and works his way to the top of his social class.

Thesis:  Through the short stories Rufus at the Door, The Life and Death of Delano Klein, and Dodgers Return, Jon Hassler shows us Marxism by the way that each of the characters in these stories fit into their societies.