The note read: “I must take the path that I must take.” Hans has a mystical peculiarity, as he can detect smells through the telephone.

The family forced her to volunteer for anti-aircraft duty seventeen years ago and she never came back.

Thus, he lacks any positive memories of the past, which may have been a factor that drove him, at age 21, to leave home to become a clown.

Finally, he calls his brother, Leo, who promises to bring him money the next day.

At the end, Hans takes his guitar to the train station and plays as people throw coins into his hat.

It criticises many aspects of society such as political and religious beliefs, marriage issues, the conflict between Catholics and Protestants, the effect of war on families (a millionaire one), and many other things in the society of Germany.

Heinrich Böll revealed all of those postwar problems and related them to some psychological aspects that harmed a man with some weird beliefs like Hans.

The church limited the relations between Catholics and Protestants, and it categorized German society into religious groups.

Although the Protestants are shown as richer people in the novel, Böll portrays society was mainly under the influence of Catholics, especially in political and moral issues.

Even his clown's art does not win approval from some political parties, although he is a great performer.

Other than that, he could easily accept the offer of his father or do not care about the friendship of his brother, Leo, with Zupfner, but he was loyal to himself and he did not sell his ideologies for money.

The first one states that the Christian ethic and spirituality was corruptive during the post war years in German society or even in Europe.

Furthermore, regarding Hans lost his sister during the war, his family preferred not to waste their wealth for their two sons.

On the other side, Marie left him after five years because of the effects that forced her to feel sinful about her life and leave him to marry another person.

Although during the postwar years Germany did not have a dictator like Hitler to classify the people in the society, the effect of those years made the society do it automatically and indirectly based on ideologies of people.

Following publication in 1963, the novel generated polemics in the press for its negative portrayal of the Catholic Church and the CDU party.

Böll's liberal views on religion and social issues inspired the wrath of conservatives in Germany.

"[1] Martin Seymour-Smith in the 1970s wrote: "It is not today easy for a Catholic writer to convince readers that an anti-Catholic who ends as a beggar is possessed of more grace than the Catholics who populate the novel; but Ansichten eines Clowns does so, and its stark power is a reminder of Böll's capacity to deal with exceedingly complicated and contentious material and to make it coherent and moving".