Character Analysis: Maus By Art Spiegelman

Have you ever thought you experienced something traumatizing? In the book Maus, by Art Spiegelman, Anja had experienced so much that she ended her own life. Anja had ended her life because she endured the holocaust, she lost a child, she had a mental illness, and she had postpartum depression. It is shown through her depressed facial expressions which were quite detailed in the story Prisoner on Hell Planet. Enduring so much and losing so much had finally been too much for Anja to overcome. Anja has many expressions in the book but she is most detailed when she was sad and depressed. Anja was drawn like she was begging for help. Anja had experienced and endured so much that she eventually committed suicide and part of the reason why she killed …show more content…
Both Vladek and Anja had been continually infatuated with their lost son that the two always reference him. The boy who did not get to live and was a cause of Anja’s death. Even on the last pages of book two the lost son was referred to. The boy had not even been that old when he had passed away. Like how on the last page of book two, before Vladek’s tombstone with Anja is shown, Vladek is talking to Art about how tired he is and actually calls Art by his brother’s name, Richieu.”’ I’m tired from talking Richieu.”’ Art had to put up with scenarios like this his whole life, especially after Anja went crazy and killed …show more content…
The hopeless feeling can get to be too much for a person making them lash out in depression and sad acts. Like how Anja said ‘“I just don’t want to live anymore”’. She had a hopeless feeling and it was hitting her hard. Anja just was not letting herself be happy. Though this disorder only lasts a couple of months Anja just kept it with her, through the Holocaust and through to her suicide. Anja was a person that with many attempts just could not be saved in the long