Since my last post I have read two more chapters which are Rue, Sage, Thyme and Temper and Reception and I am now up to page 123. In this first chapter the master ahs finally finished his painting of Clara. Iris, Ruth and Margerethe are getting ready for a dinner party that Van Der Meer is throwing. And Clara is upset because she does not want to go to this dinner party. In the second chapter they are done setting up for the dinner party and the dinner party starts. The master shows everyone his masterpiece and then Iris goes to get Clara to come down to the dinner party and to see her painting.
The paintings I think might have some symbolism in them. The master’s paintings are always so perfect, so maybe they are representing in a way what people can never have a perfect life no matter what they do. You can have lots of money and fame, but you still might not be happy. Paintings are the closest sometimes people can get to having a perfect life, because in paintings all the details and strokes are done beautifully and if the person is a good painter then there are no flaws in the painting. I have also noticed that flowers keep getting mentioned through out the book. I think that the flowers could also stand for beauty. In Clara’s painting there are tulips drawn in and then for the party tulips are used brought for the merchants to make the room prettier. Other then that I have not really noticed any other symbolism in the book.
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