• Art Spiegelman: He is one of the main characters in the story, and the one who writes and narrates “Maus”. He was born in Stockholm, right after the Holocaust ended and is the son of Vladek and Anja Spiegelman, his brother Richieu died during the war and then is the only surviving child. His mother committed suicide when he was 20 years old. He marries Francoise, she was converted to Judaism upon their engagement. As mentioned before, Maus centers its narrative around two main topics: Vladek´s story about his experiences during WWII and Art´s relationship with his father, specifically this second narrative is centered on a specific period of time in his life beginning somewhere around 1978 and ending shortly before his father´s death in 1982,
