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Gimpel the Fool.
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Gimpel the Fool. Although Gimpel did not die a fool he lived his life knowing, primarily as a fool, "I don't think myself a fool. On the contrary. But that's what folks call me." Gimpel states in the first of the story. "Gimpel the Fool" demonstrated two lower levels of the human scale. The first is the coward's ability to justify to himself the reasoning behind his behavior. The second is the crowd's ability to pick out the weakling and exploit him for their own amusement. Gimpel proved he was a fool by all that he did, "When the pranksters and leg-pullers found that I was easy to fool, everyone of them tried his luck with me." He allowed himself to be cornered, prodded, and teased yet he never stood up for himself or what he knew to be the truth. He was forced into a life created for the...
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