Father Ibsen had the inclination to bankruptcy and shadiness Ibsen used over and over in his work, and along with it the sardonic wit of a small-town failure who drank too much. The Ibsen family had to move from town to a miserable little farm on the outskirts. ![]() He was sore at his family because they were worse than poor they had gone from being well-enough off to a great diminishment-the kind of reversal that stood out like a birthmark in the nosy, petty provincial world of Ibsen’s life, and of his plays. Fate kept this large mind and angry ambition working as a druggist from the age of sixteen to twenty-two in the freezing cold of the little town of Grimstad. He seemed to have the fat of choler in his bloodstream, all of it collecting there from a youth as bitter, homely, and humiliating as a man could endure. ![]() Ibsen could never be agreeable for very long.
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