Who are they?

For my contemporary character I have chosen to focus on Fraulein Kost. In the cast of characters we learn that Kost earns a living by offering favours to sailors. She is renting a room in Fraulein Schneiders house. The connotations we get from the script is that Kost is offering sex to the sailors in return for money, which is how affords her rent. How Kost became to live like this isn't clear, perhaps she always has lived like it. In the 1920's to 1930's it was very common for women to offer up their looks in return for money during the hard times. I think that Kost would be doing the same, using her good looks to pay for her rent. The character is also quite flirty, offering herself up when Herr Shultz is pretending to look for money on the floor. I think that Kost uses this flirtation with men to get what she wants. Much like the other young lady characters in the play.