Individual Reading №6

Chapters 50-58

The narrator gave a story about Abraham, a man with great talent in the medical sphere. The man had good job and perfect future perspectives but he had left all this stuff and moved to Greece, where he earned a little. But he seemed his happiness in this freedom which he had only there. On the other side, there was Alec Carmichael who instead of Abraham had become a well-paid doctor, who saw his happiness in success and money.

The narrator wanted to know more about Strickland’s life in Tahiti and Tiare helped him by telling some facts. Charles married to Ada, a seventeen-year old girl, who deeply loved the husband. Strickland continued to draw; Ada did not interrupt him and made everything he wanted. Then their babies were born but the artist did not suppose them his because he was interested only in art, he had his passion to create beauty. Their house stood far from the town and they enjoyed freedom and loneliness. Then the narrator found out that Charles got ill, he had the typical appearance of the leper. Ada did not live him alone and shared with him last year of his life. People were afraid of the illness and became very aggressive towards this family. The baby-girl, the Strickland’s daughter, had died and Charles was going to. Several years later he passed away, leaving the greatest creation of his life: he had drawn the walls of their house but then Ada burnt it because of his desire. Strickland he had been blind for nearly a year but did not stop to draw.

The life of this man was finished and Ada with their son moved where began a new life. The narrator returned to London and decided to tell Mrs. Strickland about the life of her husband. That day one man came; it was a reporter who was writing about the great artist. The narrator told everything in details, except Ada and the son. Despite everything, Mrs. Strickland was proud of her husband and even had his pictures in her house.

The End