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Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
1.1 About Bernard Malamud and The Assistant
1.2 Critics on The Assistant at Home and Abroad
2 The Jewishness and The Assistant
2.1 The Definition of Jewishness
2.2 Jewishness in The Assistant
2.2.1 Malamud's Consciousness for Jewishness
2.2.2 Malamud's Jewishness Elements in TheAssistant
3 Jewish Suffering with Moral Growth
3.1 Jews' Rootless Exile: A Historical Perspective for Jewish Suffering
3.2 Jewish Soured Expectations and Endless Frustrations
3.2.1 Morris: Grocery as an Image of Prison
3.2.2 Morris: An Ethical Model under Suffering
3.3 Jewish Renewal from Suffering
3.3.1 Frank Alpine with Dual Person: Bad Ward and Good St. Francis
3.3.2 Frank's Moral Struggle and Final Renewal under Morris' Moral Influence
3.3.3 The Significance of Frank's Moral Redemption: All Men Are Jews
4 Jewish Irony and Humor: Laugher in Tears
4.1 The Features of Jewish Humor
4.1.1 Definition of Jewish Humor
4.1.2 Jewish Humor Through Soured Tears
4.2 Jewish Irony
4.2.1 Verbal Irony Used by Characters
4.2.2 Situational Irony Used by Characters
5 Jewish Assimilation
5.1 The Definition of Assimilation.
5.2 The Impossible Full Assimilation in The Assistant
5.3 The Interaction Between Jews and Gentiles in The Assistant
6 Conclusion
7 Bibliography