Whoever loves the more is at a disadvantage and must suffer.
In his teens Tonio was sure that love is a feeling that can and must bring nothing but pain; lovers are destined to suffer for love. To this conclusion he came when the dance classes were held and he attended those. There also was Inge, a girl he was desperately in love with, and another girl Magdalena, who was desperately in love with Tonio. And Tonio was not sorry for the last, because she suffered of love to him the same way he suffered of love to Inge.
What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes.
Thomas Mann touches eternal questions of art in this story, and states that those who have no faults can lead a normal life and be happy about simple things. And those with a lot of faults are in constant searching for improvements and lack to see that what they a re looking for is around them. It is what we see on the example of Tonio Kroger, who in his searchings for meaning of art failed to see in from the very beginning.
No problem, none in the world, is more tormenting than this of the artist and his human aspect.
Artists are believed as extraordinary people with outlooks different from normal people. And this thought is vividly traced in the story. And each artist considers to find his own way of self-improvement, of self-developing and realization. As artist deal with art, and art is considered as a human concerning field of action, a question of human aspect are the most urgent. The author states that this aspect is the most difficult one because it takes a lot of time and afford to come to the understanding of this aspect.
