DOI: 10.36344/ccijhss.2021.v07i04.004

Pages: 80-84

The Moon and sixpence is one of the three major novels of the British novelist, Maugham William Somerset. The full paper discusses the remarkable life of Strickland. The paper focuses on Strickland’s pursuit. To begin with, it introduces two major pursuits in Strickland’s life. One of the pursuit is freedom, and another is the pursuit of dreams. These two major pursuits had made great difference on Strickland. He gives up the sixpence that ordinary people yearn for and pursue the moon in his heart. Then the paper analyzes the reasons for the pursuit of freedom and dream and the ways to pursue them. This paper aims at studying Strickland’s life. From his different choices, I analyze the importance of freedom and dreams to everyone and reveals how to make a choice between the moon and sixpence in the novel.