Washington Square synopsis
"She will do as she has." Catherine Sloper is the heir to wealth and social reputation associated with Washington Square. It attracts the attention of a good-looking but bankrupt man, Maurice Townsend. She encourages romantic maid Catherine, Ms.
Benman, to sue, but her father, an intelligent doctor, is convinced his motives are mercenaries. He will not agree to marry, regardless of the cost to his daughter.
Out of this classic confrontation, Henry James coined one of the most succinctly studied short stories. The novel was first published in 1880 but forty years ago in the pre-civil war in New York, it ridiculed the forbidden world of the heroine and sat in her own life as she was.
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