'But what I want you to be, Trot,' resumed my aunt, '—I don't mean physically, but morally; you are very well physically—is, a firm fellow. A fine firm fellow, with a will of your own. With resolution,' said my aunt, shaking her cap at me, and clenching her hand. 'With determination. With character, Trot—with strength of character that is not to be influenced, except on good reason, by anybody, or by anything. That's what I want you to be. That's what your father and mother might both have been, Heaven knows, and been the better for it.'
所谓性格决定命运，人生中需要这样的指导；
但是，性格很大一部分来自于家族遗传，所以家族的命运往往具备延续性；
如果，真想要逆天改命，必须经历极大的磨难，去消除掉家族遗传的负面性格，从而塑造另外一种正面向上的性格，如此方有可能。
