Question

write a summary on A Golden Bowl story​

Answer 1

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The Golden Bowl is a 1904 novel by Henry James. Set in England, this complex, intense study of marriage and adultery completes what some critics have called the "major phase" of James's career. The Golden Bowl explores the tangle of interrelationships between a father and daughter and their respective spouses.

Answer 2

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The Golden Bowl is a 1904 novel by American-British author Henry James. Set in England, it explores a series of complicated entanglements that form between a father, Adam Verver, his daughter, Maggie, and each of their spouses. One of the first novels considered to belong in the modernist literary genre, The Golden Bowl penetrates deeply into the psyches of its main characters, often detailing their innermost thoughts almost to the point of absurdity. James borrowed the book’s title from a verse in Ecclesiastes 12 that depicts a cracked golden bowl as a metaphor for the inevitable decay or destruction of all beautiful things.

The novel begins as a poor but well-liked Italian nobleman, Prince Amerigo, visits London to wed his fiancée, Maggie Verver. Maggie’s father, Adam Verver, is a wealthy widow who hails from America and owns a fabulous art collection. In London, Prince Amerigo runs into his old American lover, Charlotte Stant, whom he had once met in Rome in the drawing room of a mutual friend, Mrs. Assingham. Prince Amerigo decided not to marry Charlotte partly because she is not rich. Charlotte and Maggie have been good friends since they were children, but Maggie knows nothing of Prince Amerigo’s past relationship with Charlotte. Amerigo and Charlotte go out to look for a wedding gift for Maggie. They find an odd store, where the clerk selects for them an antique crystal bowl embellished with gold. The Prince believes that the bowl, for its price, must be flawed, and declines it.

Maggie marries Prince Amerigo. Soon, she begins to worry that her marriage has alienated her father since they used to spend a lot of time together. She convinces him to ask for Charlotte’s hand in marriage. Charlotte accepts his proposal. At the wedding, Maggie and her father are immersed in a conversation in which they display their familial love for each other, and Amerigo and Charlotte end up together in private. They leave the wedding and begin an adulterous relationship....