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1. • • 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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   • Polly, transformed into a latter-day Robin Hood, defends his damsel from Uncle Jim. The novel remains wonderfully comic as Wells toys with the reader’s sense of psychological reality. Complete summary of H. G. Wells' The History of Mr. Polly. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The History of Mr. Polly.

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   What is Mr Polly's life like?

   • 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 History of Mr. Polly (1910) is a wonderful little novel H.G. Wells (1866-1946) is now most remembered as a pioneer of science fiction (e.g.

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   Is Mr Polly a good character?

   • Mr. Polly isn't a particularly interesting character at first, aside from his propensity to mispronounce and make up words. He's not really admirable either. The first few decades of his life are lived passively, or as he puts it later I've never really planned my life or set out to live. I happened; things happened to me.

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   Why was Mr Polly a hero?

   • It was a beautiful fire; because of it, Mr. Polly was a hero for the first time in his life. He rescued a deaf old lady who lived on a top floor and for whose safety he felt responsible because he had started the fire. When the excitement was all over, it dawned on him that he had forgotten to cut his throat. He felt a little guilty.

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   How does Polly woo his 'lady'?

   • Polly summons up all of his malapropistic poetry in wooing his mysterious “lady” in the woods (while her hidden school chums stifle hysterical giggles). The world of commerce and convention, however, always interrupts such halcyon episodes, and bewildered Mr. Polly is dragged into matrimony by the heavy tides of custom.

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   Alfred Polly lives in the imaginary town of Fishbourne in Kent [3] (not to be confused with Fishbourne, West Sussex or Fishbourne, Isle of Wight – the town in the story is thought to be based on Sandgate, Kent where Wells lived for several years). [4]

   • Author: H. G. Wells

   • Publish Year: 1910

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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...

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   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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   Sep 1, 2018 · The funerary dinner for Mr Polly’s father reads like a Robert Altman script channelled through the muse of Charles Dickens. Polly is also Wells at his most autobiographical. Like his hero, Wells started life in trade as a draper’s apprentice and plunged into an unhappy marriage with a cousin.

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   Jun 15, 2015 · The dastardly Jim had died long ago by drowning, and had been widely thought to be Polly because he had worn Polly’s shirt. Thus Polly can make a clean break with his previous life. His new life is peaceful– he is content and sees beauty in the world once again.

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   For weeks the glory of Shakespeare’s Verona lit Mr. Polly’s life. He walked as though he carried a sword at his side, and swung a mantle from his shoulders. He went through the grimy streets of Port Burdock with his eye on the first floor windows⁠—looking for balconies.

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    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...