Most of the Marxist theory that I found in “The Displaced Person” is referring to the black help that Mrs. McIntyre has hired. I find it very interesting that in Mrs. McIntyre’s eyes the black help are higher in class than the Guizacs. I think that a lot of what Mrs. McIntyre thought came from her Judge. “The old Negro had known the Judge. ‘Judge say he long for the day when he be too poor to pay a nigger to work,’ he said. ‘Say when that day come, the world be back on its feet’” (306). Mrs. McIntyre knew that the Judge valued the black help, but I think that she missed his point. Mrs. McIntyre doesn’t understand that he meant class systems would no longer be in effect. But by keeping the black help for the simple reason of keeping the black help she is doing exactly what the Judge didn’t want.
Another interesting thing about Mrs. McIntyre is when she explains in her own way what Marxism is, “’What you colored people don’t realize,’ she said, ‘is that I’m the one around here who holds all the string together. If you don’t work, I don’t make any money and I can’t pay you. You’re all dependent on me but you each and every one act like the shoe is on the other foot’“ (308).To me, her logic just seems so contradictory. Her workers are the ones that she depends on, not them depending on her. If they don’t work, they don’t get any money and it is their fault. But if they don’t work she doesn’t get any money and she fails, because it was not her making the money in the first place, she has to rely on others. Without the proletarian working class, society would collapse and fail, with the elite being the ones who really suffer which in this case would be Mrs. McIntyre.