Something I found partly comical and partly kind of sad is the part in Maus where Vladek goes to the store to return half eaten food. First he tries giving the food away to Artie and Francoise. When they refuse and since he can't eat it he decides to return it because he can't bare to throw anything away especially not food.
     It's funny because I can imagine the look on the workers faces when he asked to return the half eaten food. Also, I can see why Artie and Francoise were too embarrassed to go into the store with him especially since the only reason the store worker finally took back the groceries was because he felt bad for Vladek because he's old, sick, and was mistreated in Auschwitz.
     The reason I feel bad for Vladek is because surviving the war and the concentration camp made him this way. He could have been a bit stingy to begin with but it's the war that actually made him like this. It's easy to see how this can happen. He spent so many years saving every little bit of food he could find, and not just food, every little thing he owned because he had so little. One tiny piece of bread could have prevented him from starving for another day. His old shoes filled with holes kept his feet from getting frostbite. The fact that he saved everything kept him alive and now that the war is over he's finding it hard to change.