6/20/2023 0 Comments Maus by Art SpiegelmanBut Artie develops a more generous and loving attitude toward Vladek as they progress through hours of visits and interviews. Vladek and Artie have had a tense, difficult relationship since Artie’s childhood, which was only exacerbated by his mother’s suicide about ten years before he began work on Maus. He is concerned about pursuing his work in the most ethical way possible, and thinks deeply about his own relationship to the stories Vladek shares with him, as well as his responsibility to his family and the larger Jewish community in telling those stories. Though self-centered and often unkind, Artie is also curious and introspective. Artie struggles with feelings of anger and resentment toward his parents, Vladek and Anja, as well as feelings of guilt. A young Jewish-American man who works to write a comic book about his father’s experience during the Holocaust.
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