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The Painted Veil
by W. Somerset Maugham
The novel opens with an English couple living in Hong Kong. The wife, Kitty, is having an affair. Her husband Walter discovers it and decides that instead of divorcing her (it is the 1920s, after all) he is going to take her into the depths of China to while he works on solving the cholera epidemic. Kitty understands that what he really wants is for her to die. While working with some nuns Kitty realizes that she is pregnant, but she doesn't know who the father is. Walter seems hopeful that he will be a dad, but he meets his untimely death possibly because he is injecting himself with cholera. Kitty is relieved when he dies and returns to England.
Usually I like the novel far more than I like the movie, but this was just the opposite. In the movie Kitty and Walter fall back in love, and Walter's death is more touching. In the novel, it's just sad. Kitty doesn't even care. In the end Kitty hasn't found the living faith that she searched for in the cholera town. She realizes how blinded her heart was when she had the affair and doesn't seem all that changed for it.
Usually I like the novel far more than I like the movie, but this was just the opposite. In the movie Kitty and Walter fall back in love, and Walter's death is more touching. In the novel, it's just sad. Kitty doesn't even care. In the end Kitty hasn't found the living faith that she searched for in the cholera town. She realizes how blinded her heart was when she had the affair and doesn't seem all that changed for it.