![]() ![]() Paris indeed demands an emotional maturity that our hero, so far exclusively occupied with practical matters, has had no time to acquire. Unfortunately, he soon realizes that the remarkable talents that have enabled him to make money-enough to buy Paris if Paris is for sale-are of little use in the great city. ![]() ![]() With grandiose plans in his mind, he leaves America for Europe and naively imagines that since he possesses a high amount of dollars and of practical qualities, there is no limit to his purchasing power. He is a bachelor of forty-two and a half, who has had to work hard in manufacturing wash-tubs and other useful objects since he has never had time to enjoy himself he has now decided to devote the second half of his life to using the money he has been piling up as a younger man. The quotations are from the Chiltern Library edition (London, 1949).ĢA new Columbus, who wants to repeat his namesake’s conquest in the opposite direction and who walks in seven-league boots among the ants of the Lilliputian Old World, Christopher Newman comes to Europe not, like most of James’s Americans, for “experience” but for amusement. ![]()
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