Los Mejor Calzados

Los Mejor Calzados
In the story of “Los Mejor Calzados” by Luisa Valenzuela, one can use culture criticism to decipher some of the political and social aspects of the time the story isset in. It is set after or during an invasion, and it is told from the point of view of the lower class, the class with less power. But in using culture criticism to analyze this story I cansee how this can be view as such, because the lower class has as much use as the higher class in this situation.
The story talks about how the people have an abundance of shoes for them,because of the amount of bodies left on fields and roads, and they take them. The shoes come from higher class people, concluded by the fact that this shoes are not very worn and are inmid-perfect condition, that could only be seen in shoes of those people who do not have to do extreme labor (field work, cleaning, farming, and so on) for a living.
The story also tell how thepeople in the lower calls set up a system to trade the abundant amount of shoes to other lower class people, because they might not fit the person who found them, but they could make a profitout of them, or trade them for some that might fit. But through all this, higher class people go to them to buy the shoes, because that is the only thing they might have of the deceasedrelative, because they are not allowed to take the body, and the shoes will be the only thing they can bury. The cops also use the lower class; by allowing them to take the shoes form thebodies, because they follow them, and get accessed to the body itself, without having to do the dirty work themselves. That is where the equality of the work done by both classes come in, and howthey are both important, as told in the practice of culture criticism. Although the lower class is regarded as such by the higher class, the higher class still needs the lower class.