Individual Reading "The Moon and Sixpence"

Summary 2

1. The writer arrived in Paris and found out that Strickland had settled in a small room of a shabby hotel, and there was no any woman with him. 2. It appeared that the man left his wife to realize himself in painting and had made up his mind not to return. 3. Upon coming back to London, the young author informed Mrs. Strickland and her relatives of this, and every of them was astonished. 4. The abandoned wife became a typist, ran her own business and in five years was quite succesful. 5. The young man meanwhile went to Paris to see an old friend of him, Dirk Stroeve, who had just married a nice modest woman. 6. The couple also knew Strickland, but the wife disliked him, while the husband thought highly of his pictures. 7. The strange artist used to have dinners at the local cafe, and the two friends went to see him there.