"Angelababy recommends reading! "Moon and Sixpence" is one of William Somerset Maugham's three long masterpieces, completed in 1919. "Moon and Sixpence" is inspired by the life of the French post-impressionist painter Gauguin. The protagonist was originally an accomplished securities broker. After reaching middle age, he suddenly responded to his inner call, obsessed with painting, abandoned everything and went to Tahiti in the South Pacific to live with the indigenous people, gained inspiration, and created amazing masterpieces. Maugham deeply explored the contradictions and interactions between life and art in the novel. After Maugham's novel was published, it was sensational in the literary world with its fascinating plot and profound words, and people scrambled to read it. In this novel, Maugham used The first-person narrative technique tells the whole story through my mouth. The prototype of this novel is Gauguin, a French Impressionist painter, which adds its legendary color and attracts the attention of readers all over the world. Each of us is lonely in this world. Everyone is imprisoned in an iron tower, and can only convey his thoughts with others by relying on some symbols; these symbols have no common value, so their meaning is vague and uncertain. We want to convey the wealth in our hearts to others very pitifully, but they do not have the ability to accept them. Therefore, we can only walk alone, although our bodies depend on each other but are not together, and we do not understand other people nor can we understand others. ——Maugham