Mr Brussel Character Analysis

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The character Mr.Dussel evolves significantly throughout Frances Goodrich and Alvery Hacketts’ play, “The Diary of Anne Frank”. In other words, the Mr.Dussel the audience meets at the beginning of the play is an entirely different person from the Mr.Dussel the audience is presented with at the end. Initially, Mr.Dussel appears to be a shaken albeit kindly refuge. He claims to Anne when he first meets her, “I always get along well with children...so don’t you worry about that(pg. 133).” He also appeared to the audience to be a sort of lonely figure when Anne asked him whether or not he lived with others, and he replies with, “No one… I’m used to it(pg 131).” With his kind words and lonely story, the audience was fooled into believing that he was a generally nice person. Eventually, however, Mr.Dussel’s true colors arose, and …show more content…
In fact, it only gets worse, such as him being constantly pessimistic. This was revealed when a thief broke into the building the group was hiding in and stole some items, but was eventually scared away by a loud noise. Anne was comforted by her father, who said things such as “the danger has passed(pg 148).” Mr.Dussel, of course, blatantly stated “Who says the danger has passed? Don’t you realize we’re in greater danger than ever(pg 148)?”. This would lead to a moment of hopelessness, and to the audience, would reinforce the idea of just how bad a person Mr.Dussel really is.
Mr.Dussel’s personality transformed throughout the entire play, with the Mr.Dussel at the end of the play being nothing like the Mr.Dussel the audience was met with at the beginning. At first he seemed like a kindly albeit lonely person, but eventually, it was revealed that he was actually just a rude, ungrateful and pessimistic person. The Franks and Van Daans were kind to let Mr.Dussel stay with them, but he, even at the beginning, never even said thank you. And he never
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