A trait constantly displayed by the Ghost is narcissism. In “The Woman in Hamlet: An Interpersonal View,” David Leverenz examines some of these self-centered actions. As the Ghost recounts the horrors of his current state, Hamlet begins to become angry. The Ghost responds with “Pity me not” (Hamlet 1.5.9), which is a way of “…rejecting the empathy he has just solicited” (Leverenz 298). Leverenz also observes that the Ghost is in purgatory “not because of his heroic or virtuous strength but because of the “ignoble crimes committed in the age of nature” (298). The Ghost's love for Gertrude is also summarized as being more of a "public ritual" than an actual