It's almost comical the way Art draws out this scene, from the contrastingly black dog that looks like it was drawn in negative, to Vladek's permanent scornfully racist expression; however, it does bring to light some important implications. When Francoise question's Vladek's racism, telling him that he should know better, based on his own horrible experiences being persecuted solely for his race, he responds with "Its not even to compare the shvartsers and the jews!" Incomparable to Vladek because he believes that one human race should be compared with another human race, something that Vladek believes the "shvartsers" are not, and ironically, the exact same thing Adolph Hitler said to justify his persecution of the Jewish people in the Holocaust.
Indeed, Art portrays Vladek complete with the stereotypes of an old Jewish man: miserly, irritable, and xenophobic- qualities that the Nazis would likely highlight in the Jewish population. Art demonstrates how the Holocaust teaches, how it changes people, and how it doesn't change people at all. Art shows how his father truly bleeds history.
