The Times Literary Supplement described Hans Fallada’s Little Man, What Now? as “the novel of a time in which public and private merged even for those who wanted to stay at home and mind their own business.” Write an essay that analyzes the ways in which the ordinary private lives of the book’s main characters were shaped by broader, public political, social, and economic trends of the late Weimar Republic. For example, how were they influenced by the fractured tensions between the competing political parties of the Weimar Republic? How were they shaped by larger social trends such as the rise of the labor movement and the rise of the new woman? How were they influenced by the economic turmoil of the Great Depression?

The essay will be required to cite from  Little Man, What Now? by Hans Fallada and from Martin Kitchen’s book “A History of Modern Germany”.