"At that time, cheap apartments were almost impossible to find in Manhattan, so I had to move to Brooklyn." This is the first sentence of the novel Sophie's Choice by William Styron. Besides being the opening sentence, it's how we are introduced to our narrator, Stingo. To begin this story, Stingo moves into an apartment in Brooklyn after leaving his job at a publishing company called McGraw-Hill, and begins working on his own novel where his true passion lies. In this Brooklyn building, Stingo meets his upstairs neighbors Sophie Zawistowaska and her lover Nathan Landau. This relationship, we discover, is tainted by Nathan's violence and jealousy. Stingo quickly develops an infatuation with Sophie, who becomes our main character. As we read about her, we learn a lot about her past and why she is the way she is throughout the novel. Sophie was a Polish woman and a survivor of Auschwitz, a concentration camp established in Germany during the Holocaust in the early 1940s. In the novel we learn more about her as she recounts her experiences, for example the murder of her husband and father. We also learn of the terrible decision she faced upon entering the concentration camp, where she had to choose which of her two children would be allowed to live. She chose her son. Later we learn of his short experience as a stenographer for a man named Rudolph Hoss, the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. During her time there, Sophie attempted to seduce Hoss in an attempt to transfer her son to the Lebensborn program so that he could have been raised as a German child. Sophie's attempt failed and she was returned to middle of paper. This is the fact of how easily we forget that all the victims of the Holocaust were victims together, and they were not victims. all Jews. If critics aim for every story of the Holocaust to be told through the eyes of a Jewish person, then we would be truly lost. Our existence in the society we live in is not based on one-sided narratives of our history. The more different angles a situation is looked at, the more visible the solution is, because the situation is better understood at each turn. If Sophie's Choice had been a story focused on a Jewish woman, it would be another retelling of a situation from the same angle, opening your eyes to nothing. The wisdom of one to appreciate the wisdom of the other can only have positive consequences. Styron's writing style says a lot about who he is, as well as his concern with society's attitude..