Compare and contrast Kurt and Teck from the play, Watch on the Rhine?

Teck, like Kurt, is an expatriate, but for different reasons. Kurt hints at the reasons Teck has left his homeland when he notes that Teck wants to return, "but they do not much want" him. Teck uses this connection between them to help him convince Kurt to give him money when he claims, "we are both men in trouble. The world, ungratefully, seems to like your kind even less than it does mine."

Teck, however, is Kurt's moral opposite. He bullies his wife and tries to sell another's life to gain money and a passage back to his home. He appears to have some conscience, but it does not deter his blackmailing scheme. When Fanny confronts him, declaring that she is sickened by his demands, Teck admits the situation "is very ugly. . . . I do not do it without some shame, and therefore I must sink my shame in money."