German World Of Disappointment

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final picture that was taken of the landlady’s son was of him at his job as a streetcar conductor. All the other occasions that the soldier had seen it he reminisced about his own time spent at that particular terminus. He remembers the pop stand, the trees, the villa with the golden lions, and especially a girl that he thought of often during the war that always boarded the streetcar at that terminus. The soldier never recognizes any of the people in the picture until he had been there for three weeks and then he sees the girl in the streetcar. The landlady tells him that the girl was her son’s fiancée and that she is living in the room next to his. Pale Anna is what they always call her because of her extremely white face, but her face was unrecognizably destroyed when she was thrown through a window by a bomb blast. The soldier returns to his room and tries unsuccessfully to imagine Anna’s face being anything else but beautiful, even with scars. He thinks about his past romances ...

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intelligent and knowledgeable person, but refuses to obtain a job and instead asks everyone he knows for loans. This disappointment soon follows to the narrator because he starts to become exactly like Uncle Otto. After inheriting his uncle’s newly acquired wealth, he drops out of the University to move into his uncle’s old apartment and become a composer, which he later realizes and admits that he has no talent in that area. Following in his uncle’s footsteps also gave him the disappointment of his family. The odd thing is that neither Uncle Otto nor the narrator is upset or bothered by the fact that their family is disappointed in them, in fact, they are proud of what they are. In ...

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