The Sandman

In the story "The Sandman" i find it ironic and shallow that the protagonist is in love with basically a back-in-the-day robot/blow up doll. He wanted someone that could understand him and love him for who he was, and he had that in Klara but he didn't like the way she had thoughts of her own and her own opinions about his writing. Even when he writes to Loathar and tells him that she must be picking it up from him and that he was educating her beyond what her appearance would allow, and he told him to "stop it" seemed to me a very arrogant and close minded perception on his behalf to think that the woman he supposedly loved could not have her own thoughts or be educated like men were in that time period. Also, when he sees Klara at the end as a cold and lifeless robot instead of rightfully seeing Olympia as what she really was, merely because of Klara's rationality and mindful interactions with what was in front of her, seems to be as if whatever he was repressing in his childhood could have exploded from within him and caused him to snap, because he is so consumed by the idea that everything he experienced was real and that people or things that objected that statement weren't real or living at all. His eyes were tainted by something repressed, and he couldn't see exact reality from then on; whether it was supernatural or not, his judgement was forever skewed by the fact that he wasn't even able to tell Olympia was an automaton from the very beginning when he wasn't yet looking through the perhaps enchanted spyglass.