Individual Reading: "The Moon and Sixpencу" #1 (ch. 1-10)

The narrator of the story is a man of great talent. Hу is a writer. He is found of spending his time in circles of upper class people. Thank-you-very-much that in London he manages to find what he wants in full breath. One of his friends, Rosa Waterford has a habit to gives parties where there are lots of boring people: heads of councils with their wives, widows of bankers and other people whose responsibility to visit such type of evenings. It is unspoken rule if you owe somebody a party.

Rosa Waterford is a gossiped woman. She knows everything about everybody. One day the storyteller meats her on the street. Mrs. Waterford reports that the husband of Mrs. Strickland leaves her to France with a girl and stays his former wife without a groat.

Mrs. Strickland is interested in books of the narrator. They spend much time talking about this or that genre of literature. One day the witness of the events has been invited to the afternoon meal. Their he has seen Mr. Charles Strickland at first time. It is a broad-shouldered, massive man, with large and big arms and legs, he is clean-shaven. He keeps silent. It is his duty, but not the pleasure.

Having heard the news about the separation inside the family, our hero is going to come to Amy Strickland. Their he becomes friends with her brother-in-law – Mr. Fred McAndrew, the colonel, ho is a typical soldier. He wants to go to France and will kill their Charles. The soldier has facts that Mr. Strickland is staying with his companion in one of the luxury hotels in Paris.

Mrs. Amy Strickland has a great shock, staying alone with her children. She has got married with Charley for 17 years. She didn’t say anything to her son – Robert. It will be a hard way for them. Mrs. Strickland needs a person who can go to Paris to return her husband. Charley Strickland has not explained why he went away. There is only information that he isn’t going to come back. The narrator of the story has no ideas what should he do in this situation. At the end, he chooses to make a try in his future journey and promises to Amy to come with her husband.