" Near the end, the main character wishes he could "rip open the sky, plunge his hands through, and pull out the sun" to find it stamped on both sides like a coin.
In this work, the author writes that the question "Is it me?" is one that "a thief must ask himself the night he jimmies open his first window" and one that "bridegrooms quiz themselves before the altar." One character is described as shouting a shaky "Two!" like a man at an auction with only three dollars in his pocket, while others around him chant "be a Martin, be a Martin." Near the end, the main character wishes he could "rip open the sky, plunge his hands through, and pull out the sun" to find it stamped on both sides like a coin. The aged janitor Yakov Blotnik is a foil to that main character, Ozzie Freedman, who questions the wisdom of his rabbi and threatens to jump from the roof of the synagogue. FTP, name this story published in Goodbye, Columbus – a work written by Philip Roth.
In this work, the author writes that the question "Is it me?"
“{Conversion of the Jews}” (prompt on Goodbye Columbus, I suppose)