Summary of The Moon and Sixpence by Maugham Somerset (41-50 Chapters)

The author still led Strickland to his home, despite the fact that the latter nauseated him. However, Strickland did not worry about other people's opinions about him. He didn't care about the death of Blanche, who loved him. Moreover,  Strickland wasn't anxious about the fact that he  messed up Dirk Stroeve’s life. The painter did not want  Blanche  to go away from Dirk  to him. Everything what he was interested in was just his sexual desire to her, and Strickland  wanted to draw Blanche naked. He believed that women were created only in order to satisfy his needs. Then the painter decided to show the author his paintings. Seeing them, the narrator was very impressed. The pictures seemed to him outrageous, but at the same time there was something exciting in them. The author found that they had a mysterious meaning.  After a time, Strickland went to Marseilles and the author never saw him again. When fate threw the author to Tahiti, where Strickland  spent the last years of his life and became finally known, he asked everyone about the artist. There the author met Captain Nichols, who helped Charles Strickland  to get to Tahiti. Captain Nichols told the author that he and the painter lived in the port of Marseilles without a penny to their name, about how Strickland ran for Tough Bill, who had vowed to kill him and the artist escaped from that place, fleeing by boat to Australia. The inhabitants of Tahiti considered Strickland to be a common tramp. Now, however, they regretted that they had not understand the value of his paintings, which were now worth a fortune.