The Magic Barrel

The Character of Salzman The character of Salzman, throughout the novel becomes increasingly mysterious. His appearance at many different times is extremely awkward. It is also spooky how he has the knowledge of things that he plainly should not be informed of. His character to put it plainly is just weird. Salzman has the typical salesman characteristics in the start of the novel. Instead of selling the products of material possession, he is already weird …

…for a match for, finally found a female. He was supposed to be happy about his success, along with being satisfied that his "daughter" found a nice man to date. This should have been a happy time, yielded a prayer. This is plain awkward. Salzman is a mysterious person, and in this novel, even in the end, he was not "solved." He was just as mysterious at the end as he was in the start