The Assistant Chapter 5, Section 4 Summary

  • Morris and Frank peel hot potatoes, silent in their work.
  • Frank asks Morris what it means to be a Jew.
  • Morris says following the Torah, the Law.
  • To this, Frank asks him why he then eats pork and stays open on Jewish holidays.
  • In response, Morris says these things aren't important to him, but being right, good, and honest with other people are important.
  • Frank next asks why the Jews suffer more than others.
  • Morris answers that everyone suffers and that a Jew suffers for the law.
  • After some silence, Morris asks Frank why the sudden interest.
  • Frank confesses that before he really didn't have any use for Jews, but that was because he didn't know or understand them.