Gluttony/"Overwrought Nerves"
Even though the woman had expected to buy butter, the scarcity of food at the time removed the option. The grasping for food that Kroner depicts reveals how he understand the inflation to be a catalyst for a kind of moral degradation in which gluttony is its noteworthy, ironic, consequence.
Bibliography:
Widdig, Bernd. Culture and Inflation in Weimar Germany. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.
Kroner, Friedrich. “Overwrought Nerves.” In The Weimar Republic Sourcebook, edited by Anton Kaes, Martin Jay, and Edward Dimendberg, 63-64. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.