At the completion of the book I feel slightly bothered by the fact that even though the books were mostly about the Holocaust, it would appear that story was only to cover up Spiegleman’s own story. As though we learned what happened to his father but at the same time received a lot about Spiegleman's life; he felt blame for his mother's suicide, he indeed was at a mental institute, his relationship with his father and wife. These are just a few general examples but throughout the text a lot of it is about his life, in the first two chapters in volume two they were most about what was happening in his life. So now I question the author's purpose to write this book, was the primary purpose to write about the Holocaust or were their motives surrounding his life. The reasons I think his purpose is important is because Spiegleman is representing a large portion of Holocaust victims and shouldn't his main purpose be to represent them objectively and accurately. What do you guys think?
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I think that you bring up a good point, yet I'm not sure he is trying to use the holocaust to cover up his story. I feel without the plot of the struggles Art faces in life we would be more detached from the story, and it would feel more like the original version of Maus. Also, the two stories seem to be related. Art's rocky relationship with his father has much to do with the fact of how drastically the holocaust changed his father and his family in general. Without this personal side of the book, I feel that we would be left with more of just a historical recollection and not the deep narrative of Maus.
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