Individual Reading 6. Chapter 43-58

The narrator tried to analyze what he had written about Charles Strickland. The young man couldn't understand everuhing the artist did, thought, felt and captured because in his opinion, there was a lack of facts and details about painter's life. For Strickland art was a manifestation of the sexual instinct; he was cruel, selfish, brutal and sensual. But Charles had a vision, and he was a great artist. Years later the young man went to Tahite, the last place where Strickland lived, and where the narrator met his friend, Captain Nichols. The latter told about the artist from his point of view, differented from the facts we knew about Charles. Then the young man was introduced to other people the painter dealed with. And they told their own stories about Strickland. Well, Sharles Strickland spent last years near Papeete, he was married and hed children. The man died of leprosy but before the death he reached the peak of his art. The walls of his house in Tahite imaged something extraordinary - from floor to ceiling it was covered with an elaborate composition, mysterious and wonderful. It was the work of a man who had delved into the hidden secrets; a man who knew  things which it was unholy for people to know. After the death of the artist his pictures became relevant for art, and everyone desired to have one of them or something else. Well, everybody wanted to touch his maiden, pure works to see thegreat art.