![]() The outcome is fundamentally the same, but rather more dramatic in the movie.Review written in September 2011 Read more The movie, "The Heiress" with Olivia deHaviland and Montgomery Clift was based on this novel. The exploration of human emotions, motivations, and relationships in this novel are subtle but superb. Townsend she has her own income from her dead mother and Father cannot change that, but he can and emphatically will remove her from his Will and the assured thirty thousand a year she might expect after his death, unless she gives up Mr. Catherine's father, a prominent New York physician, will have no part of Catherine's determination to marry Mr. His prospects are no better than hers, for although he is delightful to look at, and a charming dinner companion, he has no money, no career and no family connections of the better kind. Morris Townsend, of the "other" Townsends. ![]() This is the story of unattractive, un-brilliant, motherless Catherine Sloper, who has no prospects of marriage until she somehow attracts the attention of young Mr. ![]() After muttering, grumbling and hating on Henry James for upwards of 40 years (ever since I struggled and failed to read The Ambassadors for an American Lit course in college), I have finally read and enjoyed one of his novels. ![]()
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