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The setting of the novel Ashurova Masha

The "Painted Veil" is a novel written by a British author W.Somerset Maugham. It is a love story of a young English couple, Walter, a middle-clas doctor and Kitty, an upper-class woman that happened in the 1920s. Kitty lived in England with her family and she lived only for her pleasure having fun at different balls. There was a great number of men who fell in love with Kitty and who wanted to marry her but she didn`t find anything graceful in them. As Kitty reached the age of twenty-five and she was still unmarried she was forced to do it and in panic married Walter Fane. Kitty`s husband loved her very much but she felt boredom with him. Walter was always busy at his work. He could play only cricket and didn't like public placec. Kitty loved theatres. So Kitty and Walter got married for the wrong reasons. Kitty, having come to Hong Kong on her marriage, found it hard to understand the fact that her social position depended on Walter`s occupation. Within three months of her marriage she knew that she had made a mistake. For this time Kitty wanted to fall in love with someone else. It was Charlie, a man who already had his family. Kity was sure that Charlie would devorce with his wife for her sake, but Charlie didn`t. He was selfish, selfish beyond words, he was a liar and he didn't want to take such risk. So Walter knew that it all would happen as soon as he uncovered Kitty`s infidelity. In an act of vengeance he accepted a job in village in China, which was named Mei-tan-fu. This place was the centre of a deadly epidemiс and Walter took Kitty along. She could nothing but folow him. In Mei-tan-fu Kitty began a new life. Walter disappeared at his work again and again and she found herself lonely. Kitty met Waddington, the Deputy Commissioner. She saw Waddington every day and after a week they arrived at an intimacy, Kitty began to trust him. One day Waddington began to speak to her of the convent. It was also a place where her husband worked, a place where he was admired by nuns. So Waddington spoke about Kitty with the Mother Superior before it and she wanted to meet her. Now when Kitty visited the covent she decided that she could find escape from her fear and boredom only in offering herself to help the nuns in it. Kitty found the work a refreshment to her spirit. In Mei-tan suddenly to herself Kitty began to see Walter as a new man. The journey to Mei-tan-fu brought meaning to their relationship and gave them purpose in one of the most beautiful places on the Earth in spite of the terrible cholera. One day Kitty made a discovery. She suddenly felt bad but it wasn`t cholera. Kitty was waiting for a baby. Once Walter didn`t come back to dinner. Kitty was informed that Walter had fallen ill and there was no hope at all that he would get better. Her husband died from a broken heart, she thought, but he didn`t. A week later Kitty went to the convent and decided to return to her work but the Mother Superior said it was time for Kitty to go to Hong Kong. That all made her eyes full of tears. The convent door closed for the last time behind Kitty. She returned to Hoing Kong and was going to get herself a room at a hotel because she couldn`t stay at her home but she was met by Dorothy who invited Kitty to her house. But after some days at the Towsends' Kitty left a message for Dorothy to say that she had gone. Kitty couldn`t stay at their house anymore. She thought Charlie such a dirty dog and she couldn`t see him. But Kitty wasn`t a bit better than Charlie. Now Kitty had no place to go. there was only her parents` home where she wanted to bring her daughter to life. Kitty dreamed to bring her up so that her daughter would not make such awful mistakes Kitty had made. The past was finished for Kitty at all.