The Glass Ocean   The Glass Ocean is a story told in hindsight
by orphaned Carlotta Dell’orro, who tells of her birth through
her parents’ story. In Victorian England, Leonardo Dell’orro is
a socially awkward artist, while Clotilde Girard is the daughter
of a self-professed naturalist and world traveller. They become
acquainted while on Narcissus, a ship set upon a voyage of
naturalist pursuits, and both are imbued with their own
distilled form of narcissism. Leo is obsessed with his art and
possesses an otherworldly admiration for Clodtilde but
continuously feels dissatisfied on both fronts. Clodtilde is a
beautiful but frivolous girl who nurtures her own vanity and an
admiration for her father.  The disappearance of Clotilde’s
father serves as the catalyst for their marriage, and they
settle in Whitby on the North Sea, where Leo learns about
glassmaking while Clotilde suffers in loneliness. Despite their
dismal domestic situation and characters that come between them,
Leo and Clotilde remain together out of