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            Sympathy a sharing of another's feelings or tendency to share in an emotion, sensation, or condition. At the end of the film, it is Anna Schmidt whom we ultimately sympathise with the most. Mrs. Wright, fellow classmates, I disagree with this statement and I believe that at the end of the film, The Third Man, it is Holly Martins whom we ultimately sympathise with the most.
             As much as Anna Schmidt may present a face of innocence, I do believe that she is not the one whom we ultimately should sympathise with. For her there is no world outside Harry Lime, her devotion to him is unbending, even to the point of self-sacrifice, regardless of knowing the unlawful, wicked and criminal intentions of Harry Lime. She is a completely passive character and her kind of innocence is not to be sympathized with, it is shown to be a weakness. Anna says of Harry: "He made everything seem - fun". This is not something to be sympathetic about; I feel that she is a shallow character.
             Holly Martins, a penniless novelist of Westerns has come to Vienna because his best friend, Harry Lime has supposedly kindly offered him a job. He then discovers that his best friend has recently died in a car accident. This is something to definitely sympathise with Holly was excited to be getting into a new job and earning money, coming to Post-War Vienna without really knowing anyone and losing his best friend in the process. Holly is confused and this is to also be sympathised with as it was shown in the scene with him and Major Calloway, when Calloway said about Harry "HE was about the worst racketeer who ever made a dirty living in this city. Sit down, have another drink". .
             Holly says to Anna one day "For twenty years - I knew him - the drinks he lied, the girls he liked. We laughed at the same things. He couldn't bear the colour green. But it wasn't true. He never existed, we dreamed him. Was he laughing at fools like us all the time?".