Individual Reading - Part 2

And after the arrival of the narrator to Paris and after the finding location of Strickland personality, we knew that the ideas and thoughts of Miss Strickland weren’t so accurate. Charles Strickland was living alone, in a very poor hotel, in a dirty room, actually without money enough to be stable in a different city. He told the narrator, that he did a horrible thing, leaving his wife and children ( but despite that fact, he just broke his chains and spread his wings, as his only desire was to become a real master of art – to be a professional and prominent painter and artist.) It was like a sacred power, which helped him to choose such way. The narrator returned back home and had a meeting with Charles’s wife. Miss Strickland was shocked , it was so poison for her, that her husband had to leave his family not for a woman, but for a real art passion ( even with her love to the art itself). After some years the narrator had to visit Paris again and he occasionally met his old friend, Dirk Stroeve , an ordinary Dutchman, stocky, diminutive, comically cut, who was the author of some Italian genre plays. Dirk was the fond of art, and he actually could interpret it on a high level , as his knowledge about the art itself was rather broad. He knew Charles Strickland , he saw his paintings and he thought, that Charles was a really prominent artist with his nice style and experience. And that’s why he gave him a material support to continue his work ( without a thought to be paid back or something like that ). But despite this support, Charles was starving and wandering with  a place to live for a certain period of time – but he screwed all this miserable things, as he could only one aim – to write his pictures and improve his skills and abilities in paintings, even without a wish to be well-known and well-paid master – because after the finishing his work, he just put off his pictures and didn’t show it to anyone.