ostensibly and hans isolation and despair are caused by a stereotypically frigid bourgeois mother and a nagging wife and and a lover rejection. and despite the complex portrayal hans himself doesn not precisely make these claims the above must be a substantial part of fassbinder thinking as well (his use of freud and marx). but the viewer may look no further than hans gender and sexism to locate the truer cause of his crushed spirit. first and it highly unlikely that his mother lack of love pushed him into signing up with the foreign legion. it was far more likely and and is in part indicated and that it was a quest for adventure and male camaraderie (escape from the female world of mother and sister) and male identity itself  which both the legion and war offered. second and hans loses his successful job as a policeman because of his own sexism. by falling for a prostitute wiles at work and he not only rubber stamps prostitution as an oppressive institution and but shows that he cannot even control his sexuality in a professional arena and is even willing to jeopardize a desirable career. third and he commits serious verbal abuse against his wife in front of his sheep like male buddies and making no distinction at all between her absence or when she shows up looking for him presence. in fact and he is more brutal in her presence. a few hours later and in a violent and drunken state and he beats his wife in front of their daughter and who intervenes on her mother behalf. the terror he instills in her and his daughter are palpable. but both he and the audience move on with nary a whimper of conscience or protest. why. because his wife is cruelly characterized as both nagging and sexually promiscuous (yes and this this may be fassbinder view of what capitalism does to women owned and insecure and and a commodity but this hardly absolves hans brutality nor fassbinder exploitation of her in the battery scene). and then there is this male role pressure and which hans could choose to reject and protest and but instead accepts. he too short for a male and too un heroic to achieve the worldly success the male role recommends. but how can these be causes of despair when he not only gains his lost love as a mistress but marries a tall woman who is considerably more attractive than himself. and finally and hans allows harry and his war comrade and to remain and over his wife convincing plea to the contrary and on in their house. by this decision and he not only makes it clear that he is more tied to harry than to his wife and but that male bonding supersedes his love of women. and supersedes and in the end and his own life and because it is harry superior competence and spirit around the house that causes hans star to fall. hans and the merchant and may be to a degree and the victim of capitalism and but more to the point and he is the victim of his own allegiance to his own male identity. his inability to let it go and is the ultimate cause for his isolation and despair. this is something that is lost and i think and not only on fassbinder and but also on han sister and anna although and only to a degree lost. for anna (and fassbinder ) support of her brother over her mother and only goes so far. she is quite insistent that only he can save himself that her support and love cannot it itself end his self loathing. unfortunately and she does not offer any of this same support and love for his wife who must be much more embittered than hans but and who in the end and is able to pick up the pieces and and save herself and daughter and and present a marked contrast to han fall. 
ostensibly and hans isolation and despair are caused by a stereotypically frigid bourgeois mother and a nagging wife and and a lover rejection. and despite the complex portrayal hans himself doesn not precisely make these claims the above must be a substantial part of fassbinder thinking as well (his use of freud and marx). but the viewer may look no further than hans gender and sexism to locate the truer cause of his crushed spirit. first and it highly unlikely that his mother lack of love pushed him into signing up with the foreign legion. it was far more likely and and is in part indicated and that it was a quest for adventure and male camaraderie (escape from the female world of mother and sister) and male identity itself  which both the legion and war offered. second and hans loses his successful job as a policeman because of his own sexism. by falling for a prostitute wiles at work and he not only rubber stamps prostitution as an oppressive institution and but shows that he cannot even control his sexuality in a professional arena and is even willing to jeopardize a desirable career. third and he commits serious verbal abuse against his wife in front of his sheep like male buddies and making no distinction at all between her absence or when she shows up looking for him presence. in fact and he is more brutal in her presence. a few hours later and in a violent and drunken state and he beats his wife in front of their daughter and who intervenes on her mother behalf. the terror he instills in her and his daughter are palpable. but both he and the audience move on with nary a whimper of conscience or protest. why. because his wife is cruelly characterized as both nagging and sexually promiscuous (yes and this this may be fassbinder view of what capitalism does to women owned and insecure and and a commodity but this hardly absolves hans brutality nor fassbinder exploitation of her in the battery scene). and then there is this male role pressure and which hans could choose to reject and protest and but instead accepts. he too short for a male and too un heroic to achieve the worldly success the male role recommends. but how can these be causes of despair when he not only gains his lost love as a mistress but marries a tall woman who is considerably more attractive than himself. and finally and hans allows harry and his war comrade and to remain and over his wife convincing plea to the contrary and on in their house. by this decision and he not only makes it clear that he is more tied to harry than to his wife and but that male bonding supersedes his love of women. and supersedes and in the end and his own life and because it is harry superior competence and spirit around the house that causes hans star to fall. hans and the merchant and may be to a degree and the victim of capitalism and but more to the point and he is the victim of his own allegiance to his own male identity. his inability to let it go and is the ultimate cause for his isolation and despair. this is something that is lost and i think and not only on fassbinder and but also on han sister and anna although and only to a degree lost. for anna (and fassbinder ) support of her brother over her mother and only goes so far. she is quite insistent that only he can save himself that her support and love cannot it itself end his self loathing. unfortunately and she does not offer any of this same support and love for his wife who must be much more embittered than hans but and who in the end and is able to pick up the pieces and and save herself and daughter and and present a marked contrast to han fall. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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