![]() ![]() The entire novel is encapsulated in his letter of May 22, which discusses the happiness found in living childlike, " knowing whence they come, or whither they go, influenced as little by fixed motives, but guided like them by biscuits, sugar-plums, and the rod." Any concern with larger pursuits converts your world into a prison. Werther begins as a thoughtful, introspective youth, contemplating the manner in which he should live his life. Goethe's unidirectional epistolatory novel provides only the correspondence from the protagonist, Werther, to Wilhelm, a man we learn few facts about but who seems to be Werther's friend and mentor. ![]() ![]() Classify The Sorrows of Young Werther as a book that starts out promising and then disappoints. ![]()
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