So maybe that would play into the later version of Serena as cold and vicious, as personality traits, rather than someone who acts as she does because of her emotional state. She plays Schubert as a cover; but Beethoven because he speaks for her.
I can’t call her anything other than Madame Merle otherwise I feel like Mrs Touchett. Her battle to suppress her emotional state(s) is such a fervid imperative for her: she’s pursued by them as if they were demons.
I wonder if Schubert is seen as the more gentle composer than Beethoven. Equally as Romantic but somehow less turbulent.
So maybe that would play into the later version of Serena as cold and vicious, as personality traits, rather than someone who acts as she does because of her emotional state. She plays Schubert as a cover; but Beethoven because he speaks for her.
I can’t call her anything other than Madame Merle otherwise I feel like Mrs Touchett. Her battle to suppress her emotional state(s) is such a fervid imperative for her: she’s pursued by them as if they were demons.