Short Story Love In L. A By Dagoberto Gilb
Love in L.A is a short story based on the traffic troubles a lower social class musician experiences in L.A. Dagoberto Gilb gives his reader a good example of the conflict between a lower socially classed person and an upper socially classed person.The Story starts off with an average musician named Jake who is stuck in Traffic. As the traffic slowly creeps Jake gets comfortable and turns up his music. Getting distracted he ends up hitting a beautiful Venezuelan woman Toyota. Of course, Jake ends up flirting and swaying her.As Jake starts getting to know the woman she asks about his car information to report it to her insurance company. He ends up giving her false information, “He made up a last name and address and wrote down the name of an
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insurance company an old girlfriend once belonged to. He considered giving a real phone number but went against that idea and made one up.” Dagoberto uses his main character Jake to show us how the lower social class can overcome Marxist criticism with the upper class.
Marxist criticism focuses mainly on theories of class struggle.
Which is something Dagoberto portrayed in his story Love in L.A. “He needed an FM radio in something better than this '58 Buick he drove. It would have crushed velvet interior with electric controls for the LA summer." Dagoberto at that moment classifies Jakes financial standing at that moment but that was not the only one, “....was writing down the license plate numbers on his Buick, ones that he'd taken off a junk because the ones that belonged to his had expired a long time ago.” Jake cannot even afford to pay for his license plate nor car insurance. At this point, the readers can portray Jake’s low social class status. What is so ironic about it is that Jake was daydreaming about his dream car right before he hit the back of the Toyota. “He needed an FM radio in something better than this '58 Buick he drove. It would have crushed velvet interior with electric controls for the LA summer, a nice warm heater and defroster for the winter drives to the beach, a cruise control for those longer trips.” Now Jake’s dream car will probably will on his dream list for a little bit longer as he saves up to pay for the damages on the Toyota. That is if she can get in contact with him. Jake would definitely be a hero in Marx's eyes. Being in the financial burden Jake was in, he did not let his feelings get in the way of that. With Marxism, it is always portrayed as the rich try to keep the poor, poor, and in this situation it could have been the same thing for Jake. Good thing he had a fake license plate or that could have gone bad for
him.
insurance company an old girlfriend once belonged to. He considered giving a real phone number but went against that idea and made one up.” Dagoberto uses his main character Jake to show us how the lower social class can overcome Marxist criticism with the upper class.
Marxist criticism focuses mainly on theories of class struggle.
Which is something Dagoberto portrayed in his story Love in L.A. “He needed an FM radio in something better than this '58 Buick he drove. It would have crushed velvet interior with electric controls for the LA summer." Dagoberto at that moment classifies Jakes financial standing at that moment but that was not the only one, “....was writing down the license plate numbers on his Buick, ones that he'd taken off a junk because the ones that belonged to his had expired a long time ago.” Jake cannot even afford to pay for his license plate nor car insurance. At this point, the readers can portray Jake’s low social class status. What is so ironic about it is that Jake was daydreaming about his dream car right before he hit the back of the Toyota. “He needed an FM radio in something better than this '58 Buick he drove. It would have crushed velvet interior with electric controls for the LA summer, a nice warm heater and defroster for the winter drives to the beach, a cruise control for those longer trips.” Now Jake’s dream car will probably will on his dream list for a little bit longer as he saves up to pay for the damages on the Toyota. That is if she can get in contact with him. Jake would definitely be a hero in Marx's eyes. Being in the financial burden Jake was in, he did not let his feelings get in the way of that. With Marxism, it is always portrayed as the rich try to keep the poor, poor, and in this situation it could have been the same thing for Jake. Good thing he had a fake license plate or that could have gone bad for
him.