In the play Bad Jews, all the characters had their own reasons for their actions and words. However, I feel more empathy towards Jonah because of his comprehension, his non-confrontational way and his lack of presence in his family members’ eyes.
I felt empathy towards Jonah because he seemed to be comprehensive of both sides in the argument for the Chai. Although there was a verbal battlefield that he didn’t asked for in his apartment, he still calmly listened to all arguments and, even if at the beginning he simply agreed with every one to lower the tensions, to make his choice at the end, saying that he did not want a person outside the family to have the Chai.
Also, Jonah did not want to be a