The Gustav Sonata
“No more ‘laughing boys’.
Gustav hit the walls of his room. He smashed his train. He screamed at Emilie. She cuffed his head to silence him. She picked up the broken train and threw it into the rubbish bin.
Herr Hodler was a thin, pale young man, with eyes that were pink-rimmed, like the eyes of a white rabbit. At the apartment on Unter der Egg, these rabbit eyes looked about, in vain, for a table on which the required work might be done.
‘There is no table,’ said Emilie Perle.
She showed Herr H...odler the hinged kitchen shelf. He stared at it. He wasn’t being paid well for this tuition and the sight of this inadequate space made him sigh with frustration. He told Emilie he would do his best, but that he didn’t think Gustav’s concentration would be helped by these ‘cramped work conditions’.
He hadn’t been told that Gustav had had to sacrifice his skating, so he was further dismayed by the boy’s anger and resentment at being there with him. When Gustav deliberately knocked to the floor the storybooks and history books which had been placed on the shelf, Herr Hodler swore.MoreLess
Gustav hit the walls of his room. He smashed his train. He screamed at Emilie. She cuffed his head to silence him. She picked up the broken train and threw it into the rubbish bin.
Herr Hodler was a thin, pale young man, with eyes that were pink-rimmed, like the eyes of a white rabbit. At the apartment on Unter der Egg, these rabbit eyes looked about, in vain, for a table on which the required work might be done.
‘There is no table,’ said Emilie Perle.
She showed Herr H...odler the hinged kitchen shelf. He stared at it. He wasn’t being paid well for this tuition and the sight of this inadequate space made him sigh with frustration. He told Emilie he would do his best, but that he didn’t think Gustav’s concentration would be helped by these ‘cramped work conditions’.
He hadn’t been told that Gustav had had to sacrifice his skating, so he was further dismayed by the boy’s anger and resentment at being there with him. When Gustav deliberately knocked to the floor the storybooks and history books which had been placed on the shelf, Herr Hodler swore.MoreLess
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