Contracts With God Never Work Out

In the comic Contract With God by Will Eisner, I found that the character Frimme Hersh was not able to catch a break.  It was akin to a Twilight Zone story.  Right as he thinks he finds happiness, he drops dead.  I feel like his story is very parallel to the story of Moses.  Moses has the stone tablets stating the Ten Commandments, which is his version of a contract with God.  Frimme has the stone tablet he wrote when he was younger.  Moses never got to the promise land.  He dropped dead before he could reach it, which is totally mind-boggling.  Moses followed what God told him to do almost to perfection, but he doubted God for one second and he dies.  In Contract With God, Frimme doesn’t really break the contract to begin with, but God breaks the contract.  It is a story of intense anger and you get that in the story.  You can really feel his rage and feel bad for him.  But, by the end of the story, his death doesn’t hit me like I thought it might.  He spites the very thing that tried to help him through his daughter’s death.  The tenants did not deserve to be treated the way he did.  But I know this was not supposed to be happy ending.  I feel like the way Eisner wrote the story almost made me feel more anger then if Frimme had been a nice guy through the entire story.  He became a dirty old man and died with that appearance, even if he had changed his mind about his ways right before his heart attack.  I guess the moral of the story is, don't make a contract with God.