1. Charles Strickland - The Moon and Sixpence
... , plain man. He was null. He was probably a worthy member of society, a good husband and father, an honest broker, but there was no reason to waste one's time over him. (39) It was an average family in the middle class - a rather dull man, doing his duty in that state of life in which a merciful Providence had placed him. (41) The rest ... his death. (24) They were finding him heavy. (38) His intelligence was adequate to his surroundings, and that is a passport, not only to reasonable success, but still more to happiness. (39) There was in Charles Strickland at least something out of the...
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- Approx Pages: 26
- Grade Level: High School