THE REAL THING by Henry James

The author of this story is Henry James, who was born in 1843 in New York. He has lived in both  sides of the Atlantic Ocean, where he was born and also in Massachusetts where he is bury. He used a lot phases refers to thought and conscience, this method is use, nowadays by writers like James Joyce and Virginia Woolf.

The story starts in the house of a painter, who was visited by two special persons, they were Mr. and Mrs. Monarch, they looked like if they were rich, and he thought that they wanted to buy a painting but actually they were unemployed and they needed money. The painter was recommended by Mr. Rivet. They finally convinced he to be their models and they started to pose for him. The painter also has another model, she is Mrs. Church which is the best model ever, she can be whatever you want. 

One day, A little Italian guy, Oronte, comes to the house and he ask for a work and the painter told  him that he needed a servant  and Oronte started working for the painter and also he used to help him like models  for his paintings. His painting of the Monarch  were showed to a very good friend of the painter, Jack Hawley,  and he said that it was wrong and he needs inspiration and their models didn´t give it, so he had to change Monarch and painted Oronte, the Italian, and Mrs. Church. He tried to lay out Monarch but they did all to avoid this and they started to be like servant, and They continuous working .

In my opinion, it ´s a good novel because it explain the society of this time and the form that appearance it´s the most important thing. There are some aspect that I don´t understand very well because is a physical literature and there are a lot of reflexions and thoughts.