Feminist paper

Lee 1

Michael Lee
Mrs. Morrell
Eng III
Jan 23, 2012

    Woman are portrayed as weak in Maus. In this book all womans are portrayed as weak. There is few woamn character but most mainly woman character is Lucia, Vladek's old girlfriend. Mala, Vladek's last wife, and Anja  is main character form woman in Maus. Anja was Vladek's first wife that Vladek really loved.

    Lucia is portrayed as weak to Vladek and his family. Lucia asked to Vladek to get engaged. That showed she worry about something, she want to get engaged fast before he get other girl, that show weakness of Lucia. Another situation was when Lucia send a bad letter about Vladek to Anja to feel bad. Vladek leave Lucia and went to Anja, so Lucia got mad and send a letter to Anja to make Anja's feel bad.

    Mala is portrayed as weak to Vladek, Mala is last wife that after Anja dead. She portrayed as weak, she don't say anything about past with Vladek. She don't say to Vladek but she talked to Artie, that show Mala scare to say something about past to Vladek. She know everything about about past, how the German people treat the people, what happend at the Poland becasue she was there at that time.

   Anja is portrayed as weak to herself. She was crying and said "I just don't want to live." She had a baby, her father's factory got fall, and stress from all kind of stuff. She can't hold it herself, she need someone next to her. She can't even protect herself, she can't do anything by herself. I think she was the most suffer from the heart from woman character.

   Author try to show womans are portrayed as weak. There was few woamn character but most mainly woman character is Lucia, Mala, and most importantly Anja.