The Wall | Characters

In this, his second novel, Hersey's characters are much more complexly human than in A Bell for Adano (1944; see separate entry). They are also more alien to his experience. The Jews forced behind the wall of the Ghetto at first constitute what Noach Levinson, their historian, calls "a small France." They are divided into innumerable splinter groups from far left to ultraconservative. They are highly diversified in their working histories, too, from day laborers to professional men and university professors. Some rarely, if ever, practice their religion; others are fanatically...

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