In the book “The Shawl”, the author Cynthia Ozick portrays certain characters in a positive or a negative way throughout the story line. By using descriptions of appearance and personality, as well as the main character Rosa’s thoughts and actions toward other characters she paints a fine line to distinct exactly how each character is to be interpreted. Stella, for example, was almost always illustrated in a strictly negative sense by Rosa. In Rosa’s eyes Stella was to blame for nearly everything including the death of her daughter Magda. She explained how “… Stella took the shawl away and made Magda die” (6) while they were all trying to survive at a death camp, yet it was inevitable that the baby would not survive. Although Stella is adjusting
