Summary
Chapter 33-45
One day
Dirk came to the narrator and told that Blanche wanted to suicide. She tried to
poison herself. They went to the hospital together. But she didn’t want to see her husband or the
storyteller. For the next two days, Dirk visited the hospital multiple times
per day, but Blanche will never see him. He learned that she was going to die
very soon. Blanche quietly died, leaving Dirk crushed. The narrator went with
him to her funeral, and then Dirk wanted to go by his apartment. Later, he came
to see his friend and told him that he found a picture in the apartment that
Strickland left behind. It was a nude portrait of Blanche, and when Dirk first
saw it, he destroyed it. Few time later
the narrator learned that Dirk wanted to go to the Holland and asked Strickland join to him. The
storyteller was shocked, because he didn’t understand this action. Dirk went to
Amsterdam
alone. Then the narrator met Strickland and knew about Blanche’s past and how
she lived with the painter. Strickland didn’t love her. He was ready to show
his pictures to the man. Strickland told him where to stand and then set
painting after painting on the easel.
The
narrator was disappointed, because he had been expecting something really
special. Instead, he finds Strickland's style clumsy and awkward, and he didn't like the paintings. He did not even
once consider buying one of the paintings. Then the storyteller thought about
how he wrote a story about Strickland, that he can not fully display
all aspects of his life and
had only modest facts.
There were many reflections on Strickland’s life. Many times later the narrator went to Tahiti, where Strickland spent his last years and where
he wrote his most popular pictures.
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Well-done!
told him that he HAD found
FOUND Strickland's style
that he COULD NOT fully display