Most Important Page In Art Spiegelman's The Complete Maus

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The most important page in Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel, The Complete Maus, is page 201. On this page, Spiegelman is looking back and narrating what happened after writing his stories. I think the page is powerful because it is the author looking towards and speaking to the reader. The page gives the reader a different perspective from the rest of the book. Also, this page differs because it is focused on Spiegelman and his biography. It is the most he has ever spoken about himself. The authors’ decision to depict one self by wearing the mouse mask has obvious roots in the history of using mice for Jewish representation. Also it stands out as a signal, it is Spiegelman creating his own self as an overtly literal icon. This is literal in