The upper middle class (not the middle middle, and not the lower upper). Not for one moment are we in any doubt about what this novel is interested in :ġ. John Galsworthy, our ever-affable, ultra-clubbable narrator, gradually, at a leisurely strolling pace (this is not a hard boiled crime story), unfolds, with the use of many, many commas, clauses and even, a stumbling-block for the modern reader, a free hand with the semi-colon, the situation of this nobby gang of Forsytes. So really you can only look at the family tree when you’ve read all nine novels in the saga. Because (of course!) it’s stuffed with spoilers – this person marries that person, that one divorces this one and marries her instead. Some of whom have seven or eight of their own and so on.īut my advice is, however helpful this family tree seems to be, DON’T LOOK AT IT. To get this pack of Forsytes into your head, then, you may consult the family tree helpfully printed at the front of the book, where you will see that the original Jolyon Forsyte had TEN children The first couple of chapters overwhelm the humble reader with Too Many Damn Characters, all of whom appear to be 75 years old.
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