the escape summary
The text under consideration is the short story “The Escape” written by a famous English writer Somerset Maugham.
The plot of the story is quite simple, though interesting. The protagonist of the story is a young, clever, well-mannered man rolling in money – Roger Charing. He's such a gentleman to his fingertips, that once he so graciously managed to get rid of a woman, that nobody even noticed.
He, our impeccable man, falls in love with Ruth Barlow, an unfortunate woman who was twice a widow. In spite of all the misery of her life, she, with her splendid dark eyes which seemed to be ever on the point of filling with tears, was constantly trying to find that very man who could take the sadness out of her heart.
At first, they have happy and pleasant moments of relationships: flowers, attention, passion, which a loving couple usually intending to marry has. Of course they like that rose and candy stage. But then their paths diverge: suddenly the romance disappears, Roger falls out of love with Ruth and as a man in full starts looking for the way out, but Ruth deems that the relations should develop into the marriage. She still believes that this time she will manage to be happy. But, Roger was a hard nut to crack. He finds a way to make Ruth release him.
He says they will marry the day they find the perfect house for both of them, however, Roger rejects all the orders of the agents offering a new house, it takes years for them to search for the suitable one, they visit thousands of them, but still can't find anything. And who is to say, Ruth wanted to compete with masterful tactician and expert in female psychology. At last she loses her patience and leaves Roger herself.
She finds another man to get married with, and she will be happy. And our Roger still remains a perfect and a blameless man.
The plot of the story is quite simple, though interesting. The protagonist of the story is a young, clever, well-mannered man rolling in money – Roger Charing. He's such a gentleman to his fingertips, that once he so graciously managed to get rid of a woman, that nobody even noticed.
He, our impeccable man, falls in love with Ruth Barlow, an unfortunate woman who was twice a widow. In spite of all the misery of her life, she, with her splendid dark eyes which seemed to be ever on the point of filling with tears, was constantly trying to find that very man who could take the sadness out of her heart.
At first, they have happy and pleasant moments of relationships: flowers, attention, passion, which a loving couple usually intending to marry has. Of course they like that rose and candy stage. But then their paths diverge: suddenly the romance disappears, Roger falls out of love with Ruth and as a man in full starts looking for the way out, but Ruth deems that the relations should develop into the marriage. She still believes that this time she will manage to be happy. But, Roger was a hard nut to crack. He finds a way to make Ruth release him.
He says they will marry the day they find the perfect house for both of them, however, Roger rejects all the orders of the agents offering a new house, it takes years for them to search for the suitable one, they visit thousands of them, but still can't find anything. And who is to say, Ruth wanted to compete with masterful tactician and expert in female psychology. At last she loses her patience and leaves Roger herself.
She finds another man to get married with, and she will be happy. And our Roger still remains a perfect and a blameless man.