Why does Art choose to incorporate scenes from his life and his interview process in a novel that is supposed to be about his father’s Holocaust experience? What effect do these scenes have on your understanding of Vladek’s experience? How is Art’s way o

I think this has to do with the ever present theme of familial guilt throughout the narrative. The simplest form of guilt in Maus is Art's guilt over the fact that he thinks he has not been a good son to his father. Right from the first panel of Book I, we are told that the two of them do not get along particularly well, and that they do not see each other often, though they live fairly close by. Art is always on edge around his father, and when they speak it feels as if an argument could break out at any moment.