On page 14 of volume two of Maus, Art discusses his guilt and confusion  with publishing Maus with Francoise. In this page, Art's distorted relationship with his father becomes apparent. In the first panels of the page, he states that he agrees with Francoise when she says that she feels "sorry for him," He pities Vladek for his experiences during the Holocaust and in Auschwitz and his poor health. However,  he reveals that despite his feeling bad for his father, he cannot relate to him; he exposes this when he states that Vladek "drives him crazy". Essentially, he cannot relate with his father because he didn't experience the Holocaust, which consumed and defined Vladek's entire life. Art therefore illustrates that the impact of the war consumed Vladek so much that he was incapable of becoming an ideal father, leading to a skewed relationship between him and Artie.

By revealing that the impact of the Holocaust affected Vladek's ability to become a father, Art divulges that this in turn affects himself with guilt; whereas Vladek as well as millions of other Jews experienced tremendous struggle for much of their lives, Art has the luxury of riding in his car with his wife. He realizes that it is "presumptuous" of him to write a book about millions of people who experienced suffering when he himself lives a life of wealth and fortune. His battles revolve around "making sense" out of Auschwitz- something that is impossible; by including this, Art exemplifies that the experiences of those in Auschwitz were so miserable that they simply cannot be explained. In fact, the Holocaust even affects Art to the extent that when he was a child he contemplated which of his parents he would rather save from being "taken to the ovens," something a "normal" child should never have to do. Thus, Art's struggle to make sense of Auschwitz reveals that the unjustifiable effects of the time stream not just within those who experienced it firsthand, but throughout generations.