Though all the characters which Storm likes to portray are wonderfully and apparently inextricably overgrown with tradition and custom, yet they are strong individualities, independent to the point of subbornness, and fully conscious of their right to their own inner life.
Adolf
Stern
Stern
Theodor Storm
Title: Theodor Storm
Author: Storm, Theodor
Works
The Rider on the White Horse
From the Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction, Vol. XV, Part 3