The Ashtray and the Life of Pavel

In the book of weaves the comedy and tragedy together makes us laugh at these characters and feel for them at the same time I don't know how hard that must be to do as a writer yeah. There are a number of kind of hints throughout the story that we could make kind of religious reading of it like Maria's references to not being none-ish or Plicano who has this like a god-faring widow. The ashtray was fascinating as well like why this heavy ashtray and then towards the end when Pavel of a sudden kind of rise is up in front of Maria and he has ash and blood on his head he wipes off the ash wipes out blood and