Ind. Reading "The Moon and The Sixpence". Part 6

The story tells us about an Englishman Charles Strickland, an ordinary man without any talent or aim in his life. He had a wife and two teenage children. It seemed they are close and loving family until one day Strickland left England and went to France to become a painter. Nobody couldn’t believe in it and even tried to appeal to the conscience but it was unavailing.

Meanwhile Strickland continued painting and overcoming various perplexity. He didn’t have much money and couldn’t afford a comfort life. In the last visit the narrator knew that his close friend Dirk Stroeve knew Strickland and considered him a great artist. Dirk was so kind and trusting that didn’t even notice how his wife, Blanche, fell in love with Strickland. She loved him so passionately that after a serious scandal, she committed suicide. Dirk was terribly upset and left France to live with his parents. Strickland also left Paris.

The narrator didn’t see him again but knew what had happened with him. Strickland lived in Marseille and from that he went to Tahiti, where he found a wife and had two children. He was happy and continued creating his art. In the end of his life he became blind because of leprosy but even in that case continued to paint. His last painting was a real masterpiece but his wife burnt the wall and the house itself. Strickland was a person who wasn’t understood during his hard life. But he was successful after his death.