Creepy Painting: The hidden painting of the corpse at Offendene. Break the Haughty: Gwendolen, who has already treated one suitor badly, marries Grandcourt to avoid having to work for a living-even though she knows what this will mean for Grandcourt's mistress, Lydia. Gwendolen, meanwhile, ends the novel widowed, abandoned by Daniel, and suffering from recurring fits of hysteria. Bittersweet Ending: It's not actually clear what's going to happen to Daniel and Mirah, let alone whether any of Daniel's and Mordecai's plans are going to come to fruition. Beware the Quiet Ones: Grandcourt, whose voice becomes softer and softer as he grows more and more dangerous. Betty and Veronica Switch : Gwendolene is a well-liked Christian with blond hair and she seems very grounded, and Mirah is a jewish outcast with a melancholy disposition, but Mirah is simply traumatized and very sweet, while Gwendolene, despite her good points, is a bit of an hysterical Gold Digger and may or may not be a sympathetic murderer. The result: she is reunited with her brother, freed from her horrible father, and married to Daniel. 
Mirah Lapidoth, however, enjoys singing, but she loathes public performance. The result: misery and an agonizing death from cancer. Ambition Is Evil: Alcharisi, who wants to pursue her successful theatrical career, gives up her son to do it when she thinks her voice has been wrecked, she makes an aristocratic marriage.Herr Klesmer is probably Ashkenazi, and Mirah and Mordecai could very well be either. All Jews Are Ashkenazi: averted at least in the case of Daniel himself, who is probably Sephardi in heritage.The novel was adapted a number of times: a short film titled Gwendolin in 1914, a British silent film in 1921, and twice as a television drama: in 1971 and in 2002.
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