Seize the day chapters 3-4

In chapter three I found a more humane and sympathetic face of Dr. Alder. Throughout his conversation with Wilhelm, Dr. Alder gave me the impression to show some love for his son. He cared about them and despite his thoughts, he loved Wilhelm and Catherine. However, as they started fighting I got to learn why Wilhelm hated his father so much. Dr. Alder was very prejudging, he thought his son hadn’t taken advantage of all the opportunities he had given him, and finally he thought he was better than his son and that had had a harder life. This wasn’t true because of the conditions in which Wilhelm found himself at the moment. The only person to whom Wilhelm could turn to criticized him and didn’t try to understand him, instead he told him how bad he had done things throughout his life. Finally I came to the conclusion that Dr. Alder was very selfish, he didn’t even want to give a bit of his own money which he wouldn’t need to help them out. How could he expect them to be there for him when he died? He was so selfish and egocentric that he thought his own sons were waiting for him to die so that they could take all the money from him. Maybe that would be what he would do if one of his sons died and left some money behind.
In this chapter I saw a connection between this book and slaughter house five, as Dr. Tankin said to Tommy ""The real universe. That’s the present moment. The past is no good to us. The future is full of anxiety. Only the present is real -- the here-and-now. Seize the day.""pg 62 This quotation also reminds me of a movie I saw the last year named "Dead Poet`s society" which basically shared the same message. Throughout the previous two chapters Wilhelm is constantly complaining about his life and how his father doesn’t want to help him. However as he makes business with Mr. Tamkin the reader realizes how careless and irresponsible Wilhelm is with his money. The fact that Mr. Tamkin's letter resembled the one of a fourth grader made me worry because that evidently prooved that he hadn't recieved college education even if he was a mathemtician he would need to know how to write properly. I couldn't understand why Wilhelm was entrusting his money to such man. On the other hand when I read all the stories Mr. Tamkin told Wilhelm I realized he was a liar without reason. Mr. Tamkin made me remember a little girl who I knew whom liked to tell lies to everyone about everything even if it was well known that all she told was always lies. Something that really got my nerves was that Mr. Tamkin claimed to know Greek without being able to right properly in English.