Coming Out of Trauma - Singer, "Wrongdoer, a Love Story"

As the only novel by american Jewish writer Singer set in the United States, "Wrongdoer, A Love Story" focuses on the plight of Jews exiled to the United States after the Nazi Holocaust.

In this novel, Singer portrays a male protagonist with a complex personality, rich connotations and multiple contradictions- Herman. This paper reveals the multiple contradictions of herrman's identity, personality, and beliefs through the discussion of hermann's identity.

During the Holocaust, the protagonist Herman, with the help of a non-Jewish maid, Yadwiga, survived nearly three years in a hay shed in rural Poland, and finally escaped nazi manhunting (his family died in the Holocaust, and his wife Tamara and two sons were said to have been shot and killed) and emigrated to the United States. In the United States, Herman married Yadviga in a secular ritual, and Herman also had a Jewish lover, Martha.

Herman maneuvered between the two women and had to lie to the two. But he didn't stop there, and one day his wife, Tamara, came to the United States...

The Holocaust during World War II dealt a heavy historical blow to the entire Jewish nation. As holocaust survivors, they experienced various traumatic events during the Holocaust that left their hearts with scars that were difficult to heal.

Tamara witnessed the deaths of her parents and children and learned that she had been abandoned by her husband at her most vulnerable; Martha was imprisoned in concentration camps during the Holocaust and subjected to all kinds of inhuman cruelty; The Jadwiga, after experiencing the Holocaust, married her beloved with hope but was betrayed by her husband; and for Herman, the death of the children became an eternal wound in his heart during the three years of darkness in the hay shed during the Holocaust.

After the four protagonists of the novel experience traumatic events, Tamara repeatedly experiences traumatic events after losing her loved ones and husbands, and shows symptoms of emotional numbness; Martha suffers from difficulty sleeping, irritability and irritability; Yadvija's personality changes from meekness to irritability after being betrayed by her husband; Herman is also tormented by the recurrence of traumatic events and avoids trauma-related stimuli.

The protagonist makes various efforts to recover from trauma, and Herman seeks warmth and security in his relationship with the three heroines, which greatly alleviates his inner trauma.

In the face of any trauma, the suffering of the past, we can not passively immerse ourselves in it, we must face it positively and bravely, actively communicate with the outside world, establish contact, strive to find our own value, and see the hope of a new life, so as to heal the trauma. This may be the real intention of the novel!