Blue Angel- Reflection

The scene I choose is the scene when Lola ask Professor Rath to pass her luggage and it fell and all the post cards fell out. He then went on to demand that as long as he has a red penny, the post cards must not be sold. The following scene we witness Professor Rath in the club selling the post cards himself.
I believe this scene to be the beginning of Professor Raft downward spiral. He shifted from who he was to whom his lifestyle had made him. He was up to that point, dignified and had morals that were obvious in his persona. He was also a man of boundaries but all of it went out the window. That was his wife he did not want her to be sold to the public on a post card. He didn’t want others to see in her what he did especially now that he has made her his wife.
As a Professor he was a dignified intellectual who was not a pauper but a man belonging to the decent middle class society. Because he had been bewitched  by the club lifestyle he lost his job and his money finished. He initially told Lola that, “as long as he has a red cent she will not sell those post cards”, when we see him selling the post cards if is only fair to conclude that he has ran out of money.
I chose this scene because as I mention I see this as the beginning of his down fall. I was the first time we actually see Professor Rath smoking and sitting among the commoners or the regular people in the club scene. To see him going around selling her post called was in a way degrading for his character because he lowered his standards by selling his wife picture to other men because he can no longer afford to take care of her. I also chose this scene because it is when he gave up on himself. That was when de decided to embrace the idea that this would be his new reality, he never tried to escape this lifestyle rather he embraced it.