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Robert Strickland is the son of Charles Strickland and his first wife, Mrs. Strickland. After his father abandons the family, his aunt Mrs. MacAndrew and uncle Colonel MacAndrew pay for his education. He attends Cambridge University, becomes a Christian reverend, and serves in World War I. When Charles Strickland becomes a famous painter after his death, Robert writes a biography of his father in which he attempts to whitewash his father’s character. Yet when the narrator visits the Strickland family to tell them about Strickland’s final years in Tahiti, Robert suggests that Strickland got what was coming to him when he died a terrible death by leprosy.
Robert Strickland Quotes in The Moon and Sixpence
The The Moon and Sixpence quotes below are all either spoken by Robert Strickland or refer to Robert Strickland . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapters 43–58
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My Uncle Henry, for twenty-seven years Vicar of Whitstable, was on these occasions in the habit of saying that the devil could always quote scripture to his purpose.
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Robert Strickland Quotes in The Moon and Sixpence
The The Moon and Sixpence quotes below are all either spoken by Robert Strickland or refer to Robert Strickland . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapters 43–58
Quotes
My Uncle Henry, for twenty-seven years Vicar of Whitstable, was on these occasions in the habit of saying that the devil could always quote scripture to his purpose.
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