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Tiaré Johnson, the middle-aged daughter of a Tahitian woman and an English sailor, is a hotel owner in Papeete in Tahiti. She is very generous to hotel guests, often helping men who are unable to pay their bills. When she notices that her 17-year-old relative Ata, who works at the hotel, has a crush on middle-aged English painter Charles Strickland, who sometimes eats there, she engineers their marriage. When the narrator visits Tahiti after Strickland’s death, Tiaré’s stories help the narrator reconstruct how Strickland spend his final years.
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Tiaré Johnson Character Timeline in The Moon and Sixpence
The timeline below shows where the character Tiaré Johnson appears in The Moon and Sixpence. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapters 43–58
Chapter 49. In Tahiti the narrator stays at Hotel de la Fleur. The hotel’s owner, Tiaré Johnson, sadly tells him that she went to Strickland’s estate sale after his death and...
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Of Strickland, Tiaré tells the narrator that he occasionally came to the hotel and she often saw him...
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...in their true homes and end up homesick for places they haven’t been. He tells Tiaré about an acquaintance of his, Abraham, who gave up a brilliant medical career in London...
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Chapter 51. Tiaré tells the narrator that she found a wife for Strickland in Tahiti. When the narrator...
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Tiaré tells the narrator that her first husband, Captain Johnson, used to beat her violently and...
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Chapter 53. One day, Tiaré introduces the narrator to a Frenchman named Captain René Brunot, who also knew Strickland. Brunot...
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Tiaré suggests that Brunot take the narrator to see Dr. Coutras, who can tell the narrator...
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Chapter 58. The narrator leaves Tahiti, saying an emotional farewell to Tiaré. About a month later, in London, he exchanges letters with and then visits Mrs. Strickland....
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