To the Editor:
The use of the expression “Sophie’s Choice” in the June 5 Cricket is both offensive and lacks sensitivity.
In the William Styron novel Sophie and her two children are imprisoned in a concentration camp in Poland. A Nazi officer tells Sophie her two children will be sent to the gas chamber. Her “choice” is to decide which child should be sent to the gas chamber and which child should be sent to the children’s forced labor camp in the hope of surviving.
It is appalling to compare “Sophie’s Choice” to a choice regarding your haircut.
I would have hoped the Cricket had been more judicious in their use of this term.
Barry Schwartz
Manchester
