Often times in life we try to hide our guilt by putting on a fake smile and pretending everything is okay. People are attracted to see why people pretend to be okay, and it is been incorporated into books and movies. Art Spiegelman, the author of Maus I and Maus II, shows his guilt in his books by the way he draws himself. Art makes humans be animals, and then sorts them into groups: Jews, Nazis, Poles etc; and makes himself wear a mask after the death of his father, Vladek. Throughout the books, Art Spiegelman tries to illuminate his guilt by using masks, making himself small, and telling what he does outside of working on the story. In Maus II, after his father 's death, Art starts wearing a mouse head mask, with a human head