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Social and realism have been quite a significant means for writers, painters, poets and artists throughout the past decades, to discuss and depict the social, political and economic situations in their countries through their works. Further explained, the term refers to the social reality of society as the word 'social' refers to people who are part of a particular society, and the term 'realism' refers to the way these people are represented in works of Art or Literature. Writers usually represent the struggle of the common working class in distinction with the upper class through fiction. One such important writer is Pramoedya Ananta Toer, an Indonesian writer, whose works are translated into English and many other languages. Toer's works are mostly banned in Indonesia because of his opposition to tyranny and injustice in his country. His works mostly depict the unfairness and glory of human life through autobiographical elements in his novels. The Girl from The Coast is a novel based on the true story of his grandmother's marriage and life as a poor fisherman's child entering the world of noblemen and the upper class only to be used as a worthless concubine. This paper is an analysis of the novel by Toer, illustrating the past Feudalist society of Java and the status of women in a Muslim Aristocratic society, where unjust treatment is the only thing a woman ascending from a poor village can own, while the privilege is given to the nobles in the community. The paper also represents social differences of class applying Marxism theory.