Summary 21-30

The narrator let Strickland take him to a restaurant to enjoy dinner. At the diner Strickland began to talk of himself. He told  about his life, narrating how he acted as guide in Paris, how he translated the advertisements and how despite of that he had never ceased to work at his art. After that the narrator understood, that their conversation was ended. Next chapter I get to know that the narrator settled down in Paris and began to write a play. In the evenings he went to see his friends- Dirk Stroeve and his wife Blanche Stroeve. One day the narrator and Dirk went to the picture-dealer to look at Strickland's pictures. But when they arrived the dealer told them that Strickland had taken his works away. The dealer was not disappointed, because he considered these pictures were worthless. In contrast with  him , Dirk took his word that Strickland's pictures were very  successful. In the following chapter were told, that the narrator not infrequently played chess with Strickland. One day Stricland asked the narrator to lend him fifty francs. Then the narrator demanded to see artist's pictures. Strickland didn't want to do it and  went away. Several days later he told the narrator that he was painting the portrait for two hundred francs. Strickland was in a good mood and when Dirk sat down with them he attacked him with ferocious banter. As Dirk was very sensitive, they quarreled biterly. Shortly before Christmas Dirk Stroeve  came the narrator to spend the holiday with him. Although Dirk and Strickland were out with each other, Dirk decided to call the artist to his place. Found out Strickland, they revealed that he was seriously ill. In spite of his wife's contempt to Stricland, he moved him to his workroom in order to tale care of him. In the end Strickland was on the way to recovery, turned Dirk out of his house and stayed himself with his wife, who at that moment was  in love with Charles Strickland.