One trait consistently 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 condition, Hamlet begins to become troubled. 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 notes that the Specter is in purgatory “not because of his heroic or virtuous strength but because of “the horrible crimes committed in my natural days”” (298). Even the Ghost's love for Gertrude is summed up more as a "public ritual" than as a real