Even in less dramatic incidents, Krespel turns things of one nature into something completely different "There was a hare at table, and I noticed that he carefully polished the bones on his plate, and made particular inquiries for the feet," (163) What to Krespel could have been thought of as a small masterpiece, looked to the narrator to simply be him playing with his food. It is clear that Krespel can find the beauty in most anything while others can find his remaking of the bones as simple as him playing with his food. Making sense of why the professors fifteen year old daughter gave Krepsel "many smiles" while he made these particular inquiries. Her young mind does not yet comply with the idea of it not being okay to play with your food she at least can see the beauty. Most adults would not find it appropriate for a man of his age to be playing in his food as if he were a child. He is breaking yet another behavioral norm because most adults know it is rude and inappropriate to dwindle in their food once done, but with Krepsel, he does not care. He is more concerned with making beauty out of the hare's bones. .
The most "peculiar" way Krespel discomforts others and makes them feel as if he is either compulsively controlling or crazy is his reconstruction of violins. "I am quite convinced there is something most peculiar about its interior construction, and that, if I were to take it to pieces, I should discover a certain secret which I have long been in search of" (167). Krespel shows his undying passion and search for artistic perfection in this passage. Each time he recreates a violin he realizes the error it holds and then goes onto the next one in hopes that it will be better. His constant process of trial and error devours his way of thinking. He does not see the end product of art; he sees process. He does not say anything about having control over the violins – he is engrossed by the magical feeling they carry deep in their strings.