Angel Levine (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Bernard Malamud
- First Published: 1955
- Type of Plot: Fantasy
- Time of Work: The twentieth century
- Setting: New York City
- Principal Characters: Manischevitz, Fanny, Alexander Levine
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Suffering
- Locales: New York, NY
The Story
Manischevitz has lost everything. His son was killed in the war, and his daughter left home. After a lifetime of work, his tailor shop burned to the ground and could not be rebuilt; his own health is so broken that he can work only a few hours a day as a clothes presser; his wife, Fanny, ruined her own health by taking in washing and sewing, so she is now confined to her bed. Always a religious man, Manischevitz cannot understand how God can have allowed such unreasonable suffering to come to him. In desperation, Manischevitz first prays for an explanation from God,...
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