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The Real Thing and Other Tales

The Real Thing and Other Tales

James, Henry

Paperback

Classic FictionGeneral Fiction

ISBN10: 1539614506
ISBN13: 9781539614500
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Oct 19 2016
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.46 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
The narrator, an unnamed illustrator and aspiring painter, hires a faded genteel couple, the Monarchs, as models, after they have lost most of their money and must find some line of work. They are the real thing in that they perfectly represent the aristocratic type, but they prove inflexible for the painter's work. He comes to rely much more on two lower-class subjects who are nevertheless more capable, Oronte, an Italian, and Miss Churm, a lower-class Englishwoman. The illustrator finally has to get rid of the Monarchs, especially after his friend and fellow artist Jack Hawley criticizes the work in which the Monarchs are represented. Hawley says that the pair has hurt the narrator's art, perhaps permanently. In the final line of the story the narrator says he is content to have paid the price-for the memory.

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