I totally forgot my password to log back on here and it seriously took me like 15 minutes to enter the correct one :P Intriguing moment for me, haha.
But anyhow, after clicking on a link to something describing a program for your computer I found this one written by Sebatian Donner I beleive. Within the article he does sumarizes a few things that happened within the book but also explained why/how things ended up the way they did. To start off Donner gives some background information on Art's father, Vladek, in which he talks about Vladek's high need for cleanliness. This was characteristic of him before the Nazis came around. Vladek had his girlfriend, Lucia, for several years before he was introduced to Anja Zylbergerg, who would later become his wife. Along came their first child, Richieu. Donner goes on to talk about how even though the survivors of the war did indeed physically survive, they came back to "rebuild the lives destroyed by the Nazis." After going through unbelievable amounts of torture and pain, the ones who did not die could not rest either. Both Vladek and his wife were reunited and made their escape to the United States, where Art was born. Evidently, Anja later committed suicide with no leftbehind reason as to why. This lead to Vladek's opportunity to meet Mala, another survivor, whom he married and lived out the remainder of his life with. Donner focuses a lot on summarizing and discussing Vladek. He points out how he seemed contrdictory in his actions. Vladek would throw out Art's coat with a response that "it was not good enough to be worn." Yet, he would absolutely pain him to "part with even a nickel" (133). He was so for saving any money he could, but would spend extra to look presentable, but yet wouldn't spend money on buying Mala a hairbrush. Vladek was also a hoarder, when he would keep around old menus and some paper from a hotel. These things do not seem to have much meaning to him, but there they stayed. My favorite line from this article is, "The ones who died quickly were lucky for they did not have to live with the memories." That statement is one of the truest things to be taken from Art Spiegelman's writing.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1476790/bleeding_history_art_spiegelmans_maus_pg3.html?cat=38
