Ind.Reading Ch.11-21

The narrator found a hotel, where Strickland had stopped. Suddenly, it turned out that Strickland lived there alone in a little stuffy room and this fact puzzled the narrator greatly. Strickland arrived to this cheap hotel alone with just a little sum of money. He arrived there because he wanted to paint. He didn’t love his wife and children anymore and did not want to return to them. However, then Mrs Strickland didn’t believe in it; she started to hate him and told that they were strangers to each other now.

The MacAndrews, who were childless and in easy circumstances, arranged to undertake the care of the children, and Mrs. Strickland, had only herself to provide for.  She let her flat and sold her furniture.  She settled in two tiny rooms in Westminster, and faced the world anew.  She was so efficient that it was certain she would make a success of the adventure. Finally, she became a head of in Chancery Lane (a printing office).

The author was rather bored with London and it’s monotonous life. He went to France and there he went to his old friend, Dirk Stroeve. As it turned out, Dirk was an ardent admire of works of Charles Strickland. So, the author decided to meet with this man again. Strickland had greatly changed since the last time they met.  He became as thin as a skeleton and had a really bad look. The author invited him to dine and Charles accepted.