Story #2 in the shawl was more interesting in my opinion than story number one . The second story to me shows how a traumatic experience really can change your life forever . In this story we meet Rosa ...30 years later . She is hardly the Rosa we met in The first story . Rosa is 59 now & living In Florida . Rosa lives in Florida which she calls a " hellish place " she associates the place and the sun with an executioner and a furnace. Eventhough she thinks this of Florida she still chooses to live there because she is punishing herself for what happened to madga. While Stella has moved on , Rosa cannot get over what happened in the camp . In her letters she creates this life for madga . She is delusional. She blames herself for not saving madga . When Rosa was released from the camp , she owned a successful antique shop but she lost it one day & destroyed it because she didn't like the kind of ppl that shopped there & how they wanted the antiques for the wrong reason ."... whatever you explained to them , they didn't understand " .
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