Peter is Weird
In the time that we got to see into Peter's mind, he has showed us that he is a weird person, who is kind of obsessed with Clarissa and thinks he knows what's going on around him when in actuality he does not fully understand the situation. In the beginning of the memory we are told that this is when he was "passionately in love with Clarissa", we see how he criticizes Clarissa and list some traits she had that annoyed him. "He hadn't blamed her for minding the fact, since in those days a girl brought up as she was, knew nothing, but it was her manner that annoyed him; timid; hard; something arrogant; unimaginative; prudish". Then after Clarissa and Peter part ways, he immediately goes into depression mode,which is red flag number one, as a healthy relationship would have anyone be a little sad that the one they like is gone, but not enough do that the color drains from the world and everything is grey now. After which, he goes on to say tha...