Summary Individual Reading - 5

The Moon and Sixpence.

Time passes by and Crabbe gets to Tahiti. Right there Stricland spend several years of his artistic life and finally becomes a famous person. Crabbe meets Nichols there. He is a captain who tells the conditions they lived with Strickland in the Marseille port. The captian also tells about Strickland's fleeing from Tough Bill's revenge. Some people in Tahiti deserve to call Strickland a tramp. Anyway they have sad feeling about Strickland's works that can be bought for a huge amount of money.

The story teller settles in the Tahitian hotel for a while. It is seventeen year old girl Ata who tells the narrator that she knows Strickland enough. The fact is that Strickland spends his three years in a happy way. He continues to paint.