Clara and her brother have a deep connection with their father and his personality. Wieland is more like the splitting image of his father as far a personality goes. He has strong principles about family, tradition and meditation. This rigidness really comes out when Pleyel is trying to get him to go to England and he wont go in order to preserve normalcy and family relationships. I really liked that about him by the way. Clara, is like her father in the form of a hormonal teenage girl. She is that emotional dramatic side of her dad that we saw right before he died. I agree with the idea brought up yesterday at the end of class that they inherited their Dad’s psychological state. I also feel that the actual event of their father’s death disturbed them as well as Clara admits on page 79.
An example of Clara acting like “Daddy’s girl” can be found on page 96 a the bottom when she says, “Motion seemed to produce a mechanical influence on me. I was ashamed of my weakness.” This struck the same feelings in side of me that I felt when her dad was ashamed of himself in the beginning of the story. I felt like the word ashamed was unnecessary for the situation and very interesting. Why would you be ashamed of being scared when some is whispering threats and stuff in your ear and there might be something scary in your closet! I also felt the same way about her dad, why was he ashamed of not being a complete saint! He was a very devout Christian and he had to take time to raise his family.
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