The scholar Tegan Jane Schetrumpf also makes connections to the Holocaust, stating that, "Plath compares the merchandise of a miracle-performing saint to the remnants of Holocaust victims to emphasize that she is a relic of death, as postmodernist readers are relics of the Holocaust[.]"
The scholar Tegan Jane Schetrumpf argues that Sylvia Plath uses a comparison between a miracle-performing saint's merchandise and the remnants of Holocaust victims to highlight her own status as a relic of death. This is because postmodernist readers are also seen as relics of the Holocaust.