Analysis Of Poor Gimpel

Poor Gimpel; everyday life is not easy for the everyday bread maker. Every day he is the target of jokes and pranks from the townspeople, some of which are really cruel. I sympathize with poor Gimpel; I remember how it felt getting bullied and mistreated like Gimpel. I know how it feels to be mistreated in such a way. Later on, he is betrayed by his own wife, Elka for numerous infidelities. Just because Gimpel lets all the townspeople screw around with him and Elka lie to him constantly, does that really make him a fool? Is Gimpel really any bit dopey, incompetent, or lack moral thought? Singer portrays Gimpel as a fool in his story, “Gimpel the Fool,” but he is truly not because he shows self-awareness, true feelings, and even wisdom. Does somebody who is fully aware of his surroundings and has

In a marriage, you two vow to love each other till death do you part, but obviously Gimpel and Elka’s marriage did not go that way. Gimpel loves his wife, or at the very least makes an effort to, despite the number of blows Elka gives him throughout the story. “His desire to indulge her, his outpouring of affection, which he obviously has an immense store and can which he can afford to expand unreturned, makes him reluctant to deprive himself of the happiness of her prescence-” (Goonetilleke, par 6). Even before being officially married, Elka first deceived him about her virginity. When he found Elka was, “Both a widow and divorced (1357),” he illustrates his feelings by saying, “It was a black moment for me.” He shows that clearly it was devastating for him to find out his new wife was not a virgin after all. But it does not end there. Up until her death, throughout most of their 20 year marriage, Elka committed numerous infidelities and gave birth to six children, none of which Gimpel fathers. She was able to manipulate Gimpel into thinking he was the father despite no intimacy between