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Splendors and Glooms Chapter 23 Summary

The Streets

  • Four days later, Parsefall loads Clara into the puppet wagon and takes her to perform her first show.
  • They come to a public square, and Parsefall busies himself with setting up the theater and the puppets. Clara watches as a small crowd gathers around.
  • At first, she's scared because there's a drunken man by the stage, but then Clara gets lost in the motions as Parsefall manipulates the puppets.
  • By the end of it, she's thrilled and completely caught up in the dance and the excitement of performing for an audience.