"Can he possibly die? Anything that dies has had some kind of aim in life, some kind of activity, which has worn out; but that does not apply to Odradek. Am I to suppose, then, that he will always be rolling the stairs, with ends of thread trailing after him, right before the feet of my children, and my children's children? He does no harm to anyone that one can see; but the idea that he is likely to survive me I find almost painful." --> The fact that Odradek will survive the father and will eternally have the attention of the children is representative of how commodities transcend the workers who made them; the father fears that Odradek will take his patriarchal role in the household
We patronize the fast fashion industry without realizing or caring that they benefit from the prison industrial complex and cheap labor in other countries
