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Further, the illiteracy and her substandard of the condition cause difficulties not only to Hanna, but to her lawyer also as seen in the earlier
quotation. This causes and necessitates Hannas lawyer to have more attempt to defend her.
3. Hanna Schmitz’s Personality Traits
This part discusses Hanna Schmitz‘s personal character traits. It is important to analyze the personality concerning the latter discussion on her
inferiority complex. Hanna is then described as:
a. Independent
Being independent can refer to doing any work alone without depending on another person.
Michael Berg‘s point of view can describe that Hanna Schmitz is an independent woman. Here the theory of characterization, character as seen
by another proposed by Murphy is used p. 162. The theory of personality by Cloninger is also used for it states that the condition of social environment as the
external factor can influence the people‘s character in it p. 3. The story begins in a fall season in October 1958 in Neustadt, West
German p. 3. The late 1950‘s is the post-World-War-II era, then it can be recognized that Hanna lives in a post-war era in German. After being helped by
Hanna for his sickness and getting better, Michael then starts to see Hanna at her apartment in Bahnhofrstrasse from the end of February p. 5. After a couple of
time visiting Hanna‘s apartment, Michael then finds out that Hanna has no relatives living with her, ―She had no family. ...‖ p. 39. At that time, a woman in
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her age might have a husband and couples of children, but not Hanna. She lives alone, she has a decisive job and she drowns alone in her routines.
Asking about the life of Hanna, Michael then gets the answer of her life before he comes.
She had grown up in a German community in Rumania, then come to Berlin at the age of sixteen, taken a job at the Siemens company, and ended
up in the army at twenty-one. Since the end of war she had done all manner of jobs to get by. She had been a streetcar conductor for several years p.
39. The quotation conveys that Hanna spends her childhood in a German
community in Rumania, and at the age of sixteen she comes to Berlin. The new life in the new place can be difficult to a teenage girl, particularly when she lives
alone, but soon she takes a job in Siemens company. After working for a living, she ends up in the army at her early 20‘s. The army must form her to be an
independent, strong woman. When the war ends she can get by, owing to all manner of jobs she takes p. 39. Her independence might be developed strongly
by her extensive experiences in her youth. She is accustomed to living alone, to working for her own living, and facing every problem in her life alone. When
finally meeting Michael, she has been a streetcar conductor for several years p. 39. The quotations subsequently prove that Hanna is a strong independent
woman.
b. Domineering and Dominant
