tly effected nor terribly concerned for various reasons.
             Fraulin Schroeder is the first character that is encountered in the story. She is a landlady in around her mid fifties. The narrator describes this very colorful woman as
             "shapeless but alert" with inquisitive eyes and pretty brown hair, and who usually has the tendency of peeping and spying on her lodgers. By hearing her story, it is clear that this woman has been terribly effected by the changes in Berlin, in an economic and also in a social manner. "Long ago, before the War and the inflation, she used to be comparatively
             well off. She went to the Baltic for her summer holidays and kept a maid to do the housework. For the last thirty years she has lived here and taken in lodgers" ... "You see, Herr Issyvoo, in those days I could afford to be very particular about the sort of people who came to live here. I could pick and choose. I only took them really well connected and well educated-proper gentlefolk" ... "
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