Readers see the first father running from his responsibilities, “But after her daughter’s husband had been beaten to death . . . and when her own daughter was grown, she’d married her to a goy. Now the goy had gone off” (36-37). “Her” who is the mother of the baby, “her’s” husband runs away and leaves “her” to mourn by herself. At this point, it is the introduction to the absent of father and man. The mother does not have a man to depend on and strengthen her, so her grandmother takes on the responsibility. It is a great possibility that the father’s nonexistence during the mother’s mourning of the baby’s death caused her to mourn worse. How painful would it be to have the father of your dead child abandon
Readers see the first father running from his responsibilities, “But after her daughter’s husband had been beaten to death . . . and when her own daughter was grown, she’d married her to a goy. Now the goy had gone off” (36-37). “Her” who is the mother of the baby, “her’s” husband runs away and leaves “her” to mourn by herself. At this point, it is the introduction to the absent of father and man. The mother does not have a man to depend on and strengthen her, so her grandmother takes on the responsibility. It is a great possibility that the father’s nonexistence during the mother’s mourning of the baby’s death caused her to mourn worse. How painful would it be to have the father of your dead child abandon