A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing up in Warsaw | Ideas for Reports and Papers
1. How important is the element of fantasy in Singer's stories? Does it detract from or enhance the realism they also contain?
2. Compare the mainly autobiographical stories in A Day of Pleasure with the more forthrightly fictional tales in books such as Gimpel the Fool or Short Friday. What aspects of Singer's imagination are common to all of them? How can you tell they were all written by the same author?
3. The Talmud and the Mishna contain important supplements to and commentaries on the Old Testament. Why does Singer often refer to them? Can you find...
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