Captain Edward Ashburnham is a handsome, wealthy man who has served in India and seems to be the ideal of "a good soldier" and the embodiment of the values of the wealthy social class in England. But the creator of this character, Ford Madd ...
Captain Edward Ashburnham is a handsome, wealthy man who has served in India and seems to be the ideal of "a good soldier" and the embodiment of the values of the wealthy social class in England. But the creator of this character, Ford Maddox Ford, also represents corruption at the core of society. Beneath Ashburnham's attractive and ironed appearance, an elite mind and spirit lurk in deception, trickery, and betrayal. Ashburnham had a secret affair with his wife, Florence, during his nine-year friendship with an American man of the same age as John Dowell, and unlike Dowell, Ashburnham's wife is fully aware of this. When The Good Soldier was published for the first time in 1915, the novel's frank portrayal of an immoral society that only thought of its own pleasures and believed in its own superiority over others struck a chord with many readers. Out of the oven. This work, which has a pioneering and fearless style, is narrated by the naive Doval; A character that Ford has used to create bitter and biting but extremely artistic allusions.
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