Dec 10, 2009

The Accident | Characters

The narrator (Eliezer) is a Holocaust survivor who empathizes with the suffering of others and who has suffered a great deal, himself. He has been traumatized severely by the Holocaust and wishes to die, so he neglects to evade a speeding vehicle that crosses his path. He is incapable of love, which will ultimately doom his relationship with Kathleen. He has witnessed and endured too much suffering to be happy and to fall in love with a woman like Kathleen—a woman who has never known his suffering and thus cannot ever hope to understand it, although she does try to do so. He is too...