is putting his plan to become rich into motion: buying wine for officials and schmoozing his way into the good graces of the Nazi party's leaders. He clearly is not acting good here, and you see his underlining personality: unhappy because he feels insufficient (he is unsuccessful and not as powerful as he wants to be). As the film progresses, Oskar becomes a man that has a slight interest for his fellow man's well being but I think he also becomes more tainted with what men want most, power. He is overtaken by it. It goes unnoticed because he also was acting with more and more goodness as the film continues, but the goodness is not absolute because he makes choices about weather or not to let men and women die; additionally, when Oskar contemplates whether or not to add someone to the list or not, the thoughts in his head are selfish and he is making these choices partially for his own benefit, making these choices imperfect. This goes to illustrate that human goodness is different from other goodness because of its inherent imperfection. The imperfection I
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