Overall I thought that "A Contract with God" by Will Eisner was an okay graphic novel. I like the fact that all of the stories connect with each other by showing what life was like in the city where the author grew up. I enjoy how it shows this kind of struggle to survive. A lot of the characters are struggeling to find some sort of identity and all of the characters are lonely and trying to deal with it in one way or another. Frimme Hersh lost his daughter and deals with his emptiness by blaming God, taking a mistress, and eventually writing a better contract so that God can't hurt him again. The Street Singer deals with his loneliness by getting drunk all the time. The Super is lonely and because of this he is angry and takes it out on other people so no one likes him. Once his only friend, his dog, dies he commits suicide because he lost the only thing that loved him. Rveryone in the story "A Cookalein" cannot wait to go on vacation because no one is happy with their life. By going on vacation they can ascape and live a completly different one. The younger characters are all desperate to find a husband or wife to take care of them.
     One thing I don't like about this graphic novel is the fact that none of these stories are happy. It doesn't seem to be a very accurate portrayal of this city. It couldn't have been that everyone's life was horrible and everyone was lonely. There had to have been at least a few people that had a good life and were happy. The only character who had a remotely happy story was the young woman in Cookalein who finally falls in love with the doctor and she doesn't even fall in love with him until after she was raped.