Analysis of an extract from “The Moon and Sixpence” by William Somerset Maugham (ID:427108)

The text under discussion is a piece of belles-lettres writing, namely an extract from the novel “The Moon and Sixpence” by the famous English writer of the 20th century William Somerset Maugham. The events of the text are presented in the form of the author’s first-person narration intermingled with the characters’ dialogues which prevail, including the elements of description and psychological portrayal of personages. The emotional tone of this extract isn’t homogeneous: it is mostly but sometimes it turns into ...