The protagonists of both stories are lonely and frustrated men, with the themes of childhood, love, poverty, the task of the artist's death, they anticipate the motives of Laurits Brigge Malte notes and, in general, the Rilke's later work. However, the tone in which they are exposed to sun corresponds to that "real art", which gave preference Rilke in his youth and whose task would be "put ... so vívidamentre events in the eyes of this reader and all of its environment that seem to disappear and not only experience a work of art, but it's clear spontaneity make him forget and live art directly to the event. "