Wilhelm Meister- the hero of the story - undergoes a journey of self-realization.
The story centres upon Wilhelm's attempt to escape what he views as the empty life of a bourgeois businessman.
After a failed romance with the theatre, Wilhelm commits himself to the mysterious Tower Society.
Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years or His Travels - Consisting largely of discrete short stories and novellas woven together with elements of the epistolary novel, lengthy sections of aphorisms, and several in.