Art's father meeting a stereotyoe

Throughlt the book we see Art's father being greedy with his money. He never wants to buy his wife Mala anything, and he refuses to pay a professional handyman. I think his father became like this because of his experience with the Holocaust. In the story it shows that his father had to constantly give so much of the very little he had left. I think now he has learned that he only has to pay to survive and get by. Even though he knows he is safe now he is stubborn to go back to things were.