This infusion from “The Moon and Sixpence” by W. Somerset Maugham is written by vivid. dry linguistic communication. It is about a hapless creative person. whose pictures were considered by coevalss absurd. And they were much surprised when traders from Paris and Berlin began to offer for them the immense amounts. Strickland didn’t do feeling on people. for island-dwellers he was merely a “beach-comber” . differing from others merely that he drew unusual images. It is impossible to state that he formed relationships with people. He non merely didn’t appreciate material benefits. but besides consciously about them refused: he refuses work every bit shortly as earns on pigments and a canvas. However. all the debts. he tried to return and if couldn’t give money. gave the images. Therefore the image besides got to Cohen. Cohen was a Judaic bargainer. Maugham describes him as “little old Frenchman. with soft sort eyes and a pleasant smiling. half bargainer. half seaman…” .
He is good-natured. friendly. But despite apparent simpleness. Cohen is non a simple adult male ; he is a affluent. with good concern acumen. He pities the hapless. talentless. in his sentiment. the creative person and non merely gives it work. but besides later borrows money. without trusting to have them back. Cohen emphasizes his love for the creative persons and even intimations at the propinquity to the universe of art. “I have ever had understanding for creative persons. It is in our blood. you know” . The writer in the text plays a function of the perceiver ; he pushes the middleman to further development of a secret plan. Maugham doesn’t give ain remarks. any accurate appraisal to Strickland’s creativeness. He reproduces the character through descriptions of other people. from clip to clip sneering at them. Inhabitants of the island found Strickland’s images unusual and inexplicable. and they were really surprised when on them there was a demand.
Of class. the relation to the pictures changed dramatically. But people do non repent that do non acknowledge the mastermind in a saunterer who lived nigh. They regretted the lost chance to purchase his pictures for pennies. that in a effect to gain on them. Neither the old Frenchman. nor his married woman did non understand the image presented to them for debt. They have non even thought about hanging it in the house. Cohen candidly admit it. “People would express joy at us” . And the destiny of canvas could hold ended in the refuse. if non for Cohen married woman. who ne’er throw anything off. And the image was forgotten in the Attic for many old ages. The writer mocks people’s attitude to art inexplicable to them. that is unlike on habitual. it seems to them incorrect.
The chief defect. harmonizing to Cohen’s married woman was in non reality of a landscape: “… it doesn’t resemble the plantation and I have ne’er seen cocoa-nuts with bluish leaves…” The writer shows non merely narrow perceptual experience of the married woman of the trader but besides her brother. who holding received a image. solved that it is a gag. “I would non hold given the cost of postage for the image. I was half afraid to demo it…” In the text practically there is no description of the image. heroes admit that don’t understand it. a fabric was remembered merely because of the cost which was offered for it. And it isn’t surprising that in connexion with a fabric the word “money” boundlessly adjoins. The writer shows rigidness. inflexibleness of people. it is hard to them to accept something new. it is hard to be beyond the accustomed.
