![]() This study is about analysing a piece of writing. The story is made up, but it is based on the life of Paul Gauguin. He wrote The Moon and Sixpence after hearing stories that moved him. Ten years later, Maugham went to Tahiti and met people who had known Gauguin when he lived there. He heard the story from people who had worked with Gauguin and knew him. It was there that he first heard the story of Gauguin, a banker who gave up his family and job to follow his passion for art. Now, he has to sleep in cheap hotels and is sick and hungry. He used to be a wealthy banker who lived a comfortable life. ![]() Strickland’s new life is very different from what he did in London. The narrator met Strickland at one of his wife’s literary parties. The story starts with Strickland leaving for Paris. It is told in short episodes from the first-person point of view. It is based on the life of the French painter Paul Gauguin. ![]() The story was first published by Heinemann in the UK in 1919. In The Moon and Sixpence, Charles Strickland, an English stockbroker, leaves his wife and child behind to become a painter in Paris. ![]()
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