Individual Reading Part 3

The narrator meets who hardly resembles a person he knows. Mr. Strickland wears shabby clothes, he became very skinny and strange, however he has a strong desire to paint. However, he finishes his pictures he soon loses interest in them. Just before Christmas, the narrator and Dirk are looking for Strickland, because they haven’t seen him for a month. They get to know that he is seriously ill, lying and dying on a garret. Kind Dirk tries to persuade his wife to let Mr. Strickland stay at their house till his recovery. While nursing Strickland, Blanche, to her own surprise, falls in love with him. When Dirk lerns about it, he  goes away from his apartment and lets “beloved” live in his house. Dirk tries to make Blanche come back but he fails, so he loses his wife.