and also uses Mr. Singer as an audience. He talked to him because he thinks that he is Jewish and speaks to him as a member of another oppressed people. Mick Kelly gravitates toward Mr. Singer because he listens to her. She thinks of him as a "god" of whom she could tell everything to and that he'd only look back at her with complete understanding and acceptance.
All three characters are isolated through gender roles, inequalities in race or their inability to communicate with society and themselves. In Chapter 2 of Part 1, Alice, Jake's wife, reading from the Bible, says, "All men seek for Thee" to her husband. This, in essence, is a prelude of the characters as they seek out Mr. Singer for understanding. For them, he is someone who is all things fo
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