Human Nature in Moon and Essay

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Upon arriving in London and informing Mrs. Strickland that her husband does not plan to return, the narrator notes: "now that I had seen Strickland in Paris it was difficult to imagine him in those surroundings. I thought it could hardly have failed to strike them that there was something incongruous in him." This shows the lengths which people are willing to go to fool themselves; Strickland lived for many years as a stockbroker, unwilling to see the "incongruities" of his personality to such a life until very recently. The two women in this scene, Mrs. Strickland and her sister, also fool themselves -- Mrs. Strickland imagines that no one could have been as supportive as her, whereas her sister refuses to believe that Strickland even wants to paint in the first place. Both women would rather construct a reality that fits their expectations than to absorb new information honestly and fairly.

Perhaps the most intriguing and unexpected realization the narrator comes to in regards to human nature is the ability -- the insistence, even -- of finding contentment.

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Strickland does this in his life with Ata in Tahiti: "he painted and he read, and in the evening, when it was dark, they sat together on the verandah, smoking and looking at the night." Even Mrs. Strickland manages to find contentment again; at the end of the novel, she is proudly beaming about her two children, and does not seem troubled at all when the narrator -- who must remind of her long-gone husband -- returns for a visit. She, like Strickland, moves on neatly and smoothly. True, there are a few bumps for each of them, and the contentment might not last eternally, but in general people find their own ways to be happy. This is not true of absolutely everyone in the story or in life, but it is true enough to provide some hope to both the narrator and the reader......

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