ld Coppelius may well have been a repulsive character, but it was because he hated children that you children developed such an aversion towards him (Hoffmann 10).
She, worse luck, believes that he believes it; that at any rate is what the reader eventually understands as Nathanael's unfolding madness. The boy Nathanael remembers being horror-struck by Coppelius's declaration that he and his father have "got eyes--eyes--a beautiful pair of children's eyes" (Hoffmann 188). Nathana
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