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The Plain Man and His Wife

Arnold Bennett

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. . .ide of it, and hope keeps up his courage.

Will any member of the Society for the Suppression of Moral Indignation step forward and heatedly charge the plain man with culpable foolishness, ignorance, or gullibility; or even with cowardice in neglecting to find a convincing answer to the fundamental question about the other end of his life?

IV

There is, however, a third form of the fundamental question which is less unanswerable than the two forms already mentioned. The plain man may be excused for his remarkable indifference as to what his labour and his tedium will gain for him "later on," when "later on" means beyond the grave or thirty years hence. But we live also in the present, and if proper existence is a compromise between the claims of the present and the claims of the future the present must be considered, and the plain man ought surely to ask himself the fundamental question in such a form as the following: "I am now—this morni. . . Read More

Community Reviews

'He did wrap up his grudge in cotton wool and put it in a drawer and examine it with perverse pleasure now and then.'
It was worth reading this rather mannered and repetitive work just for that forensic pinpointing of the husband who doesn't feel his wife quite appreciates him. The whole thing is rat

Weep, Norman Vincent Peale, weep!

As much of Bennett's writing, it's remarkably modern. His view, for example, that middle class women ought to have the possibility of a paying occupation, I found surprising for a book of 1913.