“Are we good people?” asks our narrator. What is this exchange about? What do you think?
I think they want to say if we are good people, why should we treat like animals? We must do something to worry so we deserve that.
Explain the significance of the story’s title, “This Way for the Gas, Ladies, and Gentlemen.” What seems strange about it?
It seems like the Gestapo says to the victims to go this way. But that is not the exit but the death. In the concentration camps, death means to release and freedom for the captures.
I think that when the narrator asks his friend, “are we good people?” it’s because he is uncomfortable with the role he has been forced to play in unloading people from the train cars and helping to move them towards their death. He is struggling with the moral implications of this role.