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The Pigeon 21$
now! Never again! He s safe with gentle
Jesus!"
THE PIGEON
JOHN GALSWORTHY calls this play a fantasy.
To me it seems cruelly real: it demonstrates that
the best human material is crushed in the fatal
imechanism of our life.
"
The Pigeon
"
also dis
closes to us the inadequacy of charity, individual
and organized, to cope with poverty, as well as the
absurdity of reformers and experimenters who at
tempt to patch up effects while they ignore the
causes.
Christopher Wellwyn, an artist, a man deeply
in sympathy with all human sorrow and failings,
generously shares his meager means with everyone
who applies to him for help.
His daughter Ann is of a more practical turn
of mind. She cannot understand that giving is
as natural and necessary to her father as light and
air; indeed, the greatest joy in life.
Perhaps Ann is actuated by anxiety for her
father who is so utterly
"
hopeless
"
that he would
give away his
"
last pair of trousers." From her
point of view
"
people who beg are rotters
"
: de
cent folk would not stoop to begging. But Chris
topher Wellwyn s heart is too full of humanity to
admit of such a straight-laced attitude.
"
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