Henry, Eva Wilt and Clem, the dog. For him an insubstantial and monotonous life and for her the continuous search for an engine that will keep her alive: suck the life out of
Henry, a snobbish lady, worried about everything that might have been, what she might have had ... and Suddenly American neighbors, and Reverend Froude and Inspector Flin...
The first instalment of what later became the hilarious saga inspired by the life and experiences of Wilt.
“What the hell am I supposed to do? He had asked after one of those nights.
‘If I the chain you grumble because I’ve woken you up and if I don’t you say it looks nasty in the morning’ (1973:8)
Henry Wilt is an Assistant …show more content…
He is Undervalued at work and "get trapped" in what looks like a terrible marriage to Eva, the best moment of the day is when his dog takes him out for a walk and Wilt can fantasize about murdering his wife. Eva is a dominant lady and with many facility of being influenced. Her changeable and manageable personality makes her a chameleonic and passionate character who suddenly finds herself immersed in a comical and disparate episode after meeting those who are apparently the role model, the Pringsheim, a cultured couple, off class, intellectually, liberally and above all interesting and with initiative, in short, everything she wants in her life and her marriage.
After a wild party at the Pringsheim house, Eva decides to leave Henry to reconsider her marriage after discovering him in an awkward situation with Judy, an inflatable doll...
While Wilt drunk, confused and angry decides to get rid of the doll by throwing it in a play close to the school, where the workers confuse her with a woman and Henry ends …show more content…
Many of his novels hide a harsh criticism of sectors, movements, politics, and even British education, although these stories can be fictitious and fantastic may be related to some of the own experiences and firsthand experiences of the author himself.
Sharpe shows us facets of British society in a brilliant and insightful way. A sharp and witty novel that through the parody is a clear reflection of some British stereotypes which ridicule mercilessly (the "intelligence of the police", intelligent humor, the sense of extreme education even in absurd situations) ... The characters they are close, with a trivial and simple life, a daily story that brings you closer to them and with which without realizing you can feel identified at some time. A cutting parody about relationships, wishes and desires, in each of the protagonists we can see a marked personality, rationally absurd as well as intelligent and irremediably fun.
Wilt is a novel full of humor, ironies and loaded with taunts towards what