![]() He knows a good thing, he knows a safe thing, and his grip on property–it doesn’t matter whether it be wives, houses, money or reputation–is his hall-mark” ( 151). ![]() ![]() His cousin Young Jolyon (who has been exiled from the family for leaving his wife for their daughter’s governess) describes the type thus: “what I call a ‘Forsyte’ is a man who is decidedly more than less a slave of property. Soames is the quintessential example of a “Forsyte”. This theme is expressed through the relationship between the central characters– Soames Forsyte (the eponymous “man of property”) and his wife Irene. In his preface, Galsworthy describes the novel as “ an intimate incarnation of the disturbance that Beauty effects in the lives of men” (iv). The trilogy begins in 1886 and ends in 1920 with the death of the last of the older generation. ![]() John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga tells the story of three generations of an upper-middle class English family. ![]()
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