Individual Reading "The Moon and Sixpence"

Summary 5

1. One day, while walking along some Paris street, the narrator suddenly met Strickland, and they had a talk, despite the young man’s unwillingness to speak to this person. 2. It appeared that Charles didn’t actually love Blanche all that time and only needed her as a woman; it was likely that he was incapable of any other strong human feeling except the desire to paint. 3. Quite unexpectedly the man offered to show his pictures to the narrator and, having seen them, the latter was disappointed and impressed at the same time, for the canvases were rather badly painted, yet there was some mysterious power in them. 4. From that time the young writer never saw the artist again, but years later, when Charles had already died, decided to write a book about this strange, but outstanding person. 5. To collect more facts from Strickland’s biography, the narrator went to Tahiti, where the painter spent the last days of his life. 6. There he met Captain Nichols, also an Englishman, who was with the artist when the latter was having a hard time in Marseilles without money or any lodging for the night, and the one through whom Charles finally got to the islands. 7. One more person who knew Strickland closely was Mrs. Tiare Johnson, the proprietress of the local hotel: the painter came to her sometimes to have something to eat, and the kind-hearted woman did her best to help him settle down.