Analysis Of Gimpel The Fool

Gimpel was a fool in a different way
Gimpel the Fool is a short story written by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The story is about a bread maker, Gimpel who lives in a small town somewhere in Europe sometime in the early 20. century. Everybody consider Gimpel as a fool and give him seven sobriquet. The people from the town make cruel jokes at Gimpel’s expense. The folk thinks he belives everything they tell him because Gimpel does not say a single word, for example: I do not belive you or You are lying, although he knows that the things are not true. That behaviour maybe owing to his ancestry, he is a Jewish man. The Jewish people have suffered a lot for decades and that is why he does not do anything against the bullying. He does not want any confrontation or any conflicts among him and the people he just want to live a peaceful life without any complication. The other reason why he behaves such a passive was is the …show more content…
He is an orphan he knows what it feels like when nobody there near you, nobody there whom you can rely and help you. His children feel the same emptiness, solitude and they think they are not good enough for Gimpel’s love. If their father could not love them and left them- Gimpel does not love them because if he loves them he definatelly does not go away- who else could love them? Gimpel is their father, not biologically but emocionally he is. Not the blood makes somebody a father but his feelings, relationship with the children. Gimpel himself sais: ˝I loved the child madly, and he loved me too. As soon as he saw me he'd wave his little hands and want me to pick him up, and when he was colicky I was the only one who could pacify him” ( Singer 997 ) So an emotional relation evolved between them. The children would give him that Elka could not give him. They would love him and look up to him. Instead Gimpel leave them alone with their questions. That is why Gimpel fool in my