The main characters of Maugham’s stories
Widely known writer William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) acted as the playwright, the novelist and the short-story writer. There are serious problems in Maugham’s books which made the reader think a lot. Many of his stories are very fascinating.
He authentically draws the social environment, time and a place of described events. The person is a main topic of his books. Maugham considered, that the writer should know life well and take part in life of a society. He was the participant of the first and second world wars.
His first novel was “Liza of Lambeth”, which was written in 1897. This novel was very interesting and he became famous at once.
His books often have the tragically end, in his books he lifts a lot of problems. At the end of each story he makes the main character make a choice. To make a choice is always very difficult and he makes his characters suffer.
I’d like to tell you about the main characters of Maugham’s stories. I tried to retell three stories: Flotsam and Jetsam, The Unconquered and Gigolo and Gigolette.
Flotsam and Jetsam
I think the main character of the story Flotsam and Jetsam was Mrs. Grange. At first I didn’t like her, because she was rather strange and unpleasant woman.
“She wore a blue cotton dress, simple enough, but more suited to a young girl than to a woman of her age; her short hair was tousled, as though on getting out of bed she had scarcely troubled to pass a comb through it, and dyed a vivid yellow, but badly, and the roots showed white… But the strangest thing about her was a tic she had that made her jerk her head as though she were beckoning you to an inner room. It seemed to come at regular intervals, perhaps three times a minute, and her left hand was in almost constant movement; it was not quite a tremble, it was a rapid twirl as though she wanted to draw your attention to something behind her back.”
(На ней было голубое хлопковое платье, довольно простое, но больше подходящее молодой девушке, чем женщине
He authentically draws the social environment, time and a place of described events. The person is a main topic of his books. Maugham considered, that the writer should know life well and take part in life of a society. He was the participant of the first and second world wars.
His first novel was “Liza of Lambeth”, which was written in 1897. This novel was very interesting and he became famous at once.
His books often have the tragically end, in his books he lifts a lot of problems. At the end of each story he makes the main character make a choice. To make a choice is always very difficult and he makes his characters suffer.
I’d like to tell you about the main characters of Maugham’s stories. I tried to retell three stories: Flotsam and Jetsam, The Unconquered and Gigolo and Gigolette.
Flotsam and Jetsam
I think the main character of the story Flotsam and Jetsam was Mrs. Grange. At first I didn’t like her, because she was rather strange and unpleasant woman.
“She wore a blue cotton dress, simple enough, but more suited to a young girl than to a woman of her age; her short hair was tousled, as though on getting out of bed she had scarcely troubled to pass a comb through it, and dyed a vivid yellow, but badly, and the roots showed white… But the strangest thing about her was a tic she had that made her jerk her head as though she were beckoning you to an inner room. It seemed to come at regular intervals, perhaps three times a minute, and her left hand was in almost constant movement; it was not quite a tremble, it was a rapid twirl as though she wanted to draw your attention to something behind her back.”
(На ней было голубое хлопковое платье, довольно простое, но больше подходящее молодой девушке, чем женщине