The professor lived in his imagined world. Everything in the real world either bored him or disappointed him. Well it is acceptable that his handling of the Victorian Classics could be idiocratic and uncomfortable to follow, his bizzare stickness to his past wife draws my question. If the Wesley hottie hadn't died, would the couple actually get along?
As intelligent as he was, he failed to notice he was ruining his daughter's life. She was intelligent. Her sharp tongue(clearly representing a sharp mind) easily impressed everyone, besides Stanford. And she was the one who gave her father's yet-to -be-published book the sensational title and she knew which publisher would actually buy the manuscript when the father himself was turned down and disappointed by "everyone". In the deleted scenes, she even worked on the manuscript as a co-author.
She was obviously following her father's path, in the good sense as well as the bad one, just way too intense. Although a teenager, she acted like a 40-yr-old lady (or too Victorian should I say?). She also snored at her peers and her brother, a blood brother in her case instead of an adopted brother as in her father's. Her sudden feelings for her uncle just led me to think her father was more than a role model for her. And that was confirmed by her unmindfulness about her mother's clothes and her confrontations with daddy's doctor girlfriend.
The adopted brother accepted being a "loser" and thought he "should be gay". The doctor was insecure and emotionally miserable as well. Her only close friend was her gay colleague.
I am glad things started to work out at the end, when they finally realized a happy life couldn't be achieved through being isolated.
More educated, more isolated and more miserable.
That's the much-neglected vicious cycle this movie managed to bring attention to.
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