The painted veil book kitty and walters

The painted veil is a brilliant study of characters. The painted veil vintage international kindle edition by. Furthermore, i think the emotional distance between kitty and walter seems as big as an ocean in the book. Somerset maugham, 9780099286875, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. The painted veil vintage international and millions of other books are. The painted veil essays are academic essays for citation. In the film, kitty ended up being madly in love with her husband, walter fane. These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of the painted veil by w. Somerset maugham the painted veil see other formats. The painted veil is the story of the beautiful, but lovestarved kitty fane. In the painted veil, walter is the metaphorical dog and kitty is the man. Kitty, much to the chagrin of her mother, has declined marriage proposal from quite a few prospective gentlemen. Walter and kitty barely spoke as they travelled by chair through the inscrutable chinese hinterland.

The painted veil chapters 6271 summary and analysis. The title is taken from percy bysshe shelley s sonnet, which begins lift not the painted veil which those who live call life. The couple, walter edward norton and kitty fane naomi watts, make a quick match. Set in england and hong kong in the 1920s, the painted veil is the story of the beautiful but lovestarved kitty fane. Painted veil because it was one of the few somerset maugham books i never. Our new desktop experience was built to be your music destination. Set in england and hong kong in the 1920s, the painted veil is. They do not come out of it in the end reunited by love but parted by death. On a brief trip back to london, earnest, bookish bacteriologist walter fane edward norton is dazzled by kitty garstin naomi watts, a vain london socialite. This is a love story set in the 1920s that tells the story of a young english couple, walter fane edward norton, a middle class doctor and kitty naomi watts, an upperclass woman, who get married for the wrong reasons and relocate to shanghai, where she falls in love with someone else. In attempting to paint this painted veil as a tragic love story kitty realizes too late what a wonderful man she married the filmmakers skimp some of its more disturbing undercurrents. This subtle reference on his death bed serves as a further suggestion that walter seems to have intended to harm kitty by bringing her to meitanfu. This was nowhere to be found in the painted veil, a work that almost seemed to have been written by a different person.

The story follows a married british couple,walter and kitty fane. But i quickly got pulled into the story of kitty fane, a spoiled and frivolous young woman whose function in life, at least at the outset of this tale, seemed to be primarily decorative. When walter discovers this, he forces kitty to accompany him to a cholera epidemic in central china. Kitty discovers that she is pregnant and suspects that charles townsend is the father. The painted veil by somerset maugham books the guardian. The painted veil is one of the most emotionally honest books ive ever read. However, one crucial point is that in the book there is no romantic journey completed by walter and kitty, as happens in the movie. We follow kittys hurried and embarrassed marriage to walter, then whistle through her seduction by townsend in order to get back up to date, to. When walter discovers the relationship, he compels kitty to accompany him to a. Gender, sexuality, and history in the painted veil. Kitty, as a beautiful, young girl is used to a lot of attention since childhood.