Research Scholar, Department of English, K. U. K., India
Online published on 11 July, 2017.
The Assistant is the story of Frank Alpine, a Jew-hater. But as the novel proceeds, he becomes an assistant to a Jew named Morris Bober, and therefore he discovers an affinity between a Jew and a Christian. So the impossible becomes possible, and human relationship, as Malamud insists, can be brought about on an authentic keel by total involvement and absolute commitment. Therefore, the present research article intends to show this total involvement and absolute commitment in human relationship particularly with the background of suffering.