Individual Reading. Part 6

Having married Ata, a Tahitian girl, Mr. Strickland married and his new wife decided to live in isolation. Sometime later Ata gave birth to a son, but, unfortunately Strickland got leprosy and died. When he was on the deathbed, he created a real masterpiece on the walls, but he insisted on his wife burn the house after his death.

The narrator left Tahiti for England, where he decided to meet Mrs. Strickland and told her about the last years of her husband's life.