This highlights how bourgeois-capitalist societies were structured at this time so that everyone except those with money or status was denied basic needs and rights despite working hard all day long for little pay, Akaky had no hope whatsoever when it came to seeking material betterment. The protagonist, Akaky Bashmachkin, is an impoverished clerk who has to spend most of his meager salary just to put food on the table for himself and perhaps a few other members of society as such, he can rarely afford anything else (such as new clothes). A Marxist reading of Gogol's "The Overcoat" would focus on the exploitative class structures that are in play throughout the story.
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