Foreskin Man associate director, was quoted as saying, "The (Monster) mohel has a dark complexion, hook nose and is practically drooling at the thought of apparently doing harm to a child, he even has claws on his fingertips. He is blood thirsty just like the grotesque Jewish stereotypes that appeared in Nazi propaganda. It's absolutely a direct parallel." Foreskin Man Foreskin Man is a comic book superhero created by Matthew Hess to protest against circumcision. Foreskin Man's alter ego is Miles Hastwick, a former corporate scientist now curator of the "Museum of Genital Integrity". He is adamantly against the practice of circumcision.
The Cares of a Family Man biographical weight to this argument. A religious perspective opens up another interpretation of the text. Goetschel indicates that the star-shaped form of the creature might represent tradition (specifically Jewish tradition), which is passed on from generation to generation and accumulates some more bits of "thread" in each generation. According to Meksin, Odradek represents a rupture between the world of the family man and some other transcendent realm. It is immortal, and hides in shadows carrying a message from generation to generation, and witnessing it all. Meksin goes on to indicate that the physical description of Odradek with its wooden crossbar