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The son of a north German merchant and a "Southern" mother (Consuelo) with artistic talents, Tonio inherited qualities from both sides of his family. As a child, he experiences conflicting feelings for the bourgeois people around him.
Feb 22, 2024 · The old family of the Krogers had little by little begun to crumble and disintegrate, and men had reason to reckon Tonio Kröger's own existence and nature among the other features of that process. His father's mother had died, the head of the family, and not long afterward his father, the tall, meditative, carefully dressed gentleman with the ...
Tonio is the fastidious Mann, and Mann’s merchant grandfather, father, and mother appear in the descriptions of Tonio’s parents. Mann left Lubeck to live in Munich after his father’s...
His parents are very different from each other, which Tonio finds fascinating. His father, Consul Kröger, is a northern merchant who believes in hard work, discipline, and order. He wants his son to excel in everything. His mother, Consuelo, has an artist’s temperament and is more free-spirited.
Tonio’s father, the German Consul Kröger, disapproves of his poetry, while his mother, from “overseas” (a striking similarity with Thomas Mann, whose father was from Lübeck and mother from Brazil), supports it (170). Tonio, however, quietly agrees with his father, finding his own tendency to write “wanton and … inappropriate” (166).
Tonio’s beautiful, black-haired mother, Consuelo, seems to him blithely indifferent to his grades, and Tonio is glad about this, though he considers his father’s attitude somehow more...
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From earliest childhood Tonio Kröger is aware of his separation from other people, in particular his two schoolmates Hans Hansen and Ingeborg Holm, who represent the bourgeois norm, symbolized by their blond good looks.
