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- Mr Polly is an ordinary middle-aged man who is tired of his wife's nagging and his dreary job as the owner of a regional gentleman's outfitters. Faced with the threat of bankruptcy, he concludes that the only way to escape his frustrating existence is by burning his shop to the ground, and killing himself.
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The protagonist of The History of Mr. Polly is an antihero inspired by H. G. Wells's early experiences in the drapery trade: Alfred Polly, born circa 1870, a timid and directionless young man living in Edwardian England, who despite his own bumbling achieves contented serenity with little help from those around him. Mr. Polly's most striking ...
- H. G. Wells
- 1910
Mr. Polly is a charmingly comical anti-hero. His middle-aged life is so hopeless and empty that only a sudden idea to commit suicide brings a bit of "hope" into his dreary existence. But as he puts his brilliant suicidal plan into action, an unexpected turn of events opens a new and very different page in Mr. Polly's story.
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Mr. Polly sat on a stile and cursed. He cursed the world, his wife, and himself, for Mr. Polly was thirty-five years old and buried alive. He hated his slovenly wife, his fellow...
Sep 1, 2018 · At the end of the novel, however, Polly’s conscience prods him to return home and check on his wife. He discovers, to his surprise, that he is dead. A body has been found in the river, and his wife has claimed it as his, using Polly’s life insurance to start a tea shop with her sister.
Mr. Polly immediately likes her and takes a job as a handyman at the inn. She gives him permission to leave when Uncle Jim shows up, but the devotion she inspires induces Mr. Polly to defend her.
Mr Polly is an ordinary middle-aged man who is tired of his wife’s nagging and his dreary job as the owner of a regional gentleman’s outfitters. Faced with the threat of bankruptcy, he concludes that the only way to escape his frustrating existence is by burning his shop to the ground, and killing himself.
Jun 15, 2015 · His path through life is that of a flat boat with untethered sails– he might as easily plummet to his death over a waterfall as drift into a homely port. Or, to use Alfred Polly’s own metaphor, he’s in a hole.
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