Moral Ambiguity in Etgar Keret's Collection of Short Stories

Moral ambiguity and relativism are a main theme that ties together the stories in “The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God”. All options are wrong and right to some extent; yet the characters have to choose in order to move forward with life and all of its unfortunate ambiguities. They and their choices are neither good nor evil, just life or death (the relationship between which is another theme).

In the title story, the bus driving has made his decision: picking up late passengers is immoral because it wasts everyone else's time. But then he realizes that he was wrong when a needy passenger's plight touches him. Is it right to pick up the late passenger?

An Israeli named Goodman is hired to kill someone is Texas. He is caught and gets the death penalty. His old school friend goes to visit the killer, the old classmate, the essentially dieing man. Who is the "Goodman", the title of the story?

In "Hole in the Wall", even if Udi’s friend were an angel, should he have pushed him? Is Udi justified in pushing his friend, since he lied to him and isn’t special after all?

Why are townsfolk in “A Souvenir of Hell” not upset that people are coming up from hell. The unreality of it isn't interesting, but, if they are in hell, aren’t they evil people? Shouldn’t the townsfolk abhor them? They are all grey the living and dead, not good or bad. In a way, the supernatural aspect of this story isn’t as striking as the moral ambiguity.

In "Uterus", the father leaves the mother because she didn’t have her beautiful uterus anymore. He sees it as the right thing to do. What's the value of putting an internal organ on display in a museum? Is it still useless?

Should the pig be broken? Which is more valuable, the pig or the Bart Simpson doll kid has been whining for? What is the lesson learned?

“Cocked and Loaded” is entirely a game of moral relativism.

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