Gimpel_The_Fool

Gimpel The Fool A Sense of Redemption Isaac Singer’s Gimpel The Fool is the story of a Jewish man who is as naïve as a child. Gimpel is portrayed as the town fool and is considered unworldly. For his ignorance he is underestimated and exploited by his peers, yet he always seems to prevail. He shows through his many situations that the meek do inherit the earth. His wife Elka is just the opposite. She is a woman of considerable experience in handling the affairs of life. A calculated woman with a sense of avarice, she is cunning, manipulative, and sinful. She is a Jew though and in the Jewish Orthodox faith there is no redemption; for a sin, there is hell. This faith is based on the Laws of Jehovah and the Pentateuch. This story questions the Law of Jehovah. We are told that the Lord gives no repentance, but in the end Elka comes to Gimpel in near angelic form. Isaac Singer breaks away from Judaism in this story and expresses ideas of Christianity, which show that he may have not held traditional Jewish values. Gimpel is gimpel, elka, story, woman, town, tells, people, learns, jewish, fool, though, tell, singer, sin, one, never, jehovah, goes, dreams, bread, yet, wife, visits, villagers, time, sense, says, say, redemption, portrayed, orthodox, marriage, lucifer, life, law