Flory discards Ma Hla May and falls deeply in love with Elizabeth. When Flory acts in a more masculine and authoritative way, as when they go on a hunting trip, she finds him more desirable and thinks she could possibly marry him. She craves only a life of ease and wealth, and hopes to marry a European she meets in Burma.įlory and Elizabeth initially hit it off, but she becomes annoyed by the way he defends the natives and tries to praise their culture and mores.

Elizabeth hates the natives and all things that indicate a highbrow or artistic disposition. She has come to live with them after her mother dies. Lackersteen's niece Elizabeth arrives in the colony. Macgregor, and Westfield –are mostly indifferent but not particularly disposed toward the natives.įlory's life changes when Mr. Another member, Ellis, viciously hates the natives, and the other men – Mr. Veraswami to the Club after it is ordered that it be opened to a native member. He also laments his lack of courage in terms of nominating Dr. He has a Burmese mistress, Ma Hla May, but he feels nothing for her. The doctor defends the English, though, and believes his own countrymen to be less civilized.įlory is remarkably lonely, and loathes himself for his ugly birthmark on one cheek.

Veraswami, discoursing about the negative effects the English have on the Burmese. Flory does not care much for the British Empire and befriends Dr. He meets with the handful of other Europeans in the Club, where they complain about their roles as administrators and businessmen in the quickly fading Empire. Veraswami, an upstanding Burmese who affronts U Po Kyin through his rectitude and geniality.įlory, a timber merchant, has been in Burma for several years now. U Po Kyin, an extremely powerful magistrate in Kyauktada, Upper Burma, plots and schemes to take down Dr.

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