April 28, 2011

Rosa is crazy. Anybody who will smash up her store and leave a life of luxury to live in a “motel” in hell is CRAZY. I have come to the conclusion that she smashed up her store to punish people who do not understand the history behind the pieces she sold in her antique store. Most people are just collectors of items and not the history behind them.  And Rosa is one of those people who question the motives of those in societies, because those pieces represented her story, not just a nameless or faceless persons’ story.

From Rosa’s story Ozick is trying to convey to the readers that the Holocaust experience did not spare any victims even those who did not parish. Rosa’s story is one of survival, but not technically. She hasn’t died like Magda but she is dead inside, she is unable to pick up and move forward and that is true survival.