In 'salvatore' Somerset Maugham volces dissatisfaction with the fact that for most people the things spoken about oneself are more important than the man himself.Do you agree?illustrate your answer with the belp examples from the story.
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In 'salvatore' Somerset Maugham voices dissatisfaction with the fact that for most people the things spoken about oneself are more important than the man himself.
Yes, I agree because he felt alone in war and living with the strangers in the noisy cities, he grew homesick and missed is fiancé.
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It is sad but true that most of us are led by the things spoken about a man than by the man himself. We tend to believe what we hear. Rarely do we bother to confirm them by approaching the man. The result is often disastrous for him. It may prove to be so for us, too, at times.
Salvatore falls ill in a distant land. His fiancee and her parents hear that Salvatore will never be quite well again and that he will not be able to work like other fishermen. So they break the engagement. Salvatore is so kind-hearted that he does not speak a harsh word of the girl he has loved passionately. He realizes that a girl cannot afford to marry a man who might not be able to support her.
After some time, he marries Assunta, a woman older than him. Assunta is ugly but proves to be a very caring and supporting wife. With her money he is able to have his own boat and a vineyard. All through the fishing season he sets out in his boat with one of his brothers for the fishing grounds. It is a long pull of six or seven miles, and after catching the profitable cuttlefish throughout the night he comes back. At other times he works in his vineyard from dawn till the heat forces him to rest.
There is no doubt that rheumatism often prevents him from doing anything at all. But it does not mean that he is totally incapacitated. He leads an almost normal life, doing his work, making money and rearing his children:
Salvatore had enormous hands, like legs of mutton, coarse, and hard from constant toil, but when he bathed his children, holding them as tenderly, drying them with delicate care; upon my word they were like flowers.
It is in this context that we feel that the girl Salvatore loved did injustice to him by rejecting him on mere what she had heard about him.