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张晗雪
When a person abandons everything for the sake of art, he is no longer a human being. The human body is just to maintain that paintbrush. In other words, he has become a monster in the eyes of ordinary people, a god in their own eyes. So there's no need to criticize the character of Strickland anymore. He was born to strive for art under Maugham's pen. He is not a moral good person or a good person in the hearts of the masses, but he is indeed a pure person, purely for the beauty of art. Even if he knew it was bad luck, he would go after it recklessly, walking swiftly and finally achieving both bad luck and beauty at the end of his life.