Quest for Justice in Malamud’sThe Fixer

Abstract

The Fixer dramatizes the stirring portrait of injustice inflicted upon an innocent Jewish handyman, Yakov Bok. The power politics imprisons him for no particular reason except being a Jaw for a crime. Though he is severely beaten, tortured, and ill-treated in the prison, he does not confess the crime even at the risk of triggering pogrom. He protests and fights against the insurmountable injustice of the power holders and endures all kinds of pains, sufferings, and psychological tortures for the triumph of truth and justice.