She simply dismisses this as something akin to a comedy to her, it is not a serious threat to the existence of the people around her. Furthermore, she never says anything about the Nazis and their strong anti-Semitic arguments. This state of affairs points to the naivety of the landlady. It does not make sense when she gets angry about a teapot, but never minds when her guests ruin her property or use it for immoral acts like prostitution. She does not object to anything, even when people deliberately wrong her. In the first novella, i.e., ‘A Berlin diary,’ the kind landlady –Fraulein Shroeder – seems to have her priorities mixed up. Using instances from the novellas, discuss how the author successfully created such characters.
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