Who is Aunt Dora from The Wall Jumper: A Novel and what is their importance? The_Wall_Jumper:_A_Novel English & Literature Aunt Dora | The Wall Jumper: A Novel

rotected from East German officials by a pseudonym Dora is the Narrator's maternal aunt, a small, vivacious widow living on a wooded hill in Dresden. Her privately-owned three-story villa is furnished in nostalgic middle-class style. As they have never met, Dora is cautious about her Western relative. Her cosmopolitan air seems not fit with the Narrator's Saxon family tree. It is not the Wall that separates the paternal and maternal sides of the family but sociology. Somehow, the maternal side has not lost its upper-middle-class privilege under socialism. Dora's late husband had prospered under both the Nazis and later the Communists, after undergoing superficial denazification. The Narrator's mother, meanwhile, had upset the family by marrying beneath her dignity.