views with strict accordance with his own views. His own plan is to send Bertha away from home and to have trained her as a schoolmistress with justified logic.
Being the father he strongly believes in his due importance that it is he who should have most voice in her upbringing but unfortunately meets with nothing but mere bitterness and opposition. His own desire brings him in conflict with his wife Laura and he feels obstructed. As a scholar and intelligent person he thinks that his daughter’s upbringing by many women of his house will be a sort of “trying to mould a character like a piece of patch work”. When the pastor points out that everybody in the house is a godfather, the captain humorously tells that it is “like going to cage full of tigers” The entire household is at “sixes and sevens”.
Both the characters differ in opinion. The captain is really confused whether he does have any value or not at a place, he runs of his own. After all it is his own house and he should have some kind of identity and weight but unfortunately he is not getting that. Here a question does arise if the child does not have a clear ambition regarding his or her career and the parents disagree, then who shall decide the child’s future, and then the answer is obviously the father only because it is the father who has been doing the hard work of arranging the bread and butter for the family. He pays the piper and that’s why he has the rights to call the tune and also takes all the responsibilities. But here the unfortunate father is not allowed to function independently because each and every member in this family has a different opinion.
The captain lives with an illusion that he has a happy family and he is the supreme