Word: sheilah
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reminiscent of Gene Stratton Porter's Jaspar in "The White Flag." He is a sincere man, but haplessly imbued with a grain of deceit which ultimately leads him to his grave. "Poor, kind, bungling, ineffectual Felix"! He is indispensable, for had he not had the power to draw from Sheilah Miller her unreasoning compassion, there would have been no conflict and no story. These protagonists are direct antitheses not only socially, but intellectually and spiritually...
From a sense of duty in repayment for his devout adoration of her, Sheilah marries Felix, and at that moment begins her life of compunction. It terminates only when Felix, aware of his own inadequacy of supplying her with the love she deserves, purposely involves himself in an accident that causes his death...
After her marriage, Sheilah sinks into veritable oblivion, and because her husband is so lacking in the attributes of a gentleman, welcomes it. Her days of work and regret are somewhat mitigated later by the entrance into her life of Roger Dallinger, a gentleman of instinctively fine qualities to whom in their clandestine relationship she gives the spiritual love her husband never inspired...
...death of Felix, Sheilah arranges a meeting with Roger, and although the story ends here, we may infer that they later marry, and according to the fictitious story book ending, live happily ever after...
CONFLICT-Olive Higgins Prouty -Houghton Mifflin (2). The life of Sheilah Miller is a conflict between the violent superficial distaste and the deep, deeply contradictory love which she feels for Felix Nawn. She marries him for martyrdom and her conflict continues; now it is between , her longing for Roger Dallenger and the old torturous instinct to protect the weaknesses of Felix. When Felix learns that the theft which he committed so that he could buy her a car is going to be exposed, he finds the tardy courage to commit suicide. Roger, about to propose to another girl, hears...