Strabger journal 1

The two different translations are very different tonally. The first translation portrays a respectful young man who is distraught over his mother's death and dutifully preparing to go to her funeral, while the second translation almost evokes anger from the reader, in that the character seems so indifferent to his mother's death, lacking in manners when speaking of her funeral, and altogether disgusting by way of his being so self-centered. These different translations evoke very different emotions from the reader, The first translation sympathy, and the second disgust and anger.