...(The little digression as to my Philadelphia experiences was really meant to lead around to this.) For who in this world can give anyone a character?...cannot be certain of the way any man will behave in every case — and until one can do that a "character" is of no use to anyone. That, for instance,...

...difficult to give an all-round impression of any man," Dowell muses, and then, just a few pages on, "For who in this world can give anyone a character?...world knows anything of any other heart — or of his own?"8 The structure of the novel makes it impossible for us to decide with any confidence whether...

...1915 [1990] p. 144): Tor who in this world can give anyone a character [ie, a character reference]? Who in this world knows anything of any other heart...cannot be certain of the way any man will behave in every case and until one can do that a "character" is of no use to anyone.' Of course Ford's sorry...

...this world can give anyone a character? Who in this world knows anything of any other heart — or his own? I don't mean to say that one cannot form...cannot be certain of the way any man will behave in every case — and until one can do that a "character" is of no use to anyone. By character Dowell...

...(The little digression as to my Philadelphia experiences was really meant to lead around to this.) For who in this world can give anyone a character?...anything of any other heart- — or of his own? I don't The normal party nomination as opposed to a divided nomination that represents a faction or wing of...

...Good Soldier. In the latter, the search for the heart hidden beneath the exterior is Dowell's despair: 'Who in this world knows anything of any other heart - or of his own?'(GSI04l. Ford himself took up Maupassant's ideas in his preface to Stories from Maupassant translated...

...character is unknowable. And it may be unknowable because, as Dowel1 speculates, it has ceased to exist. "For who in this world can give anyone a character?...this world knows anything of any other heart — or his own? I don't mean to say that one cannot form an average estimate of the way a person will behave....

...Target 205 Acknowledgments 223 some do it naturally some obscenely everywhere. — Charles Bukowski o "Who in this world knows anything of any other heart — or of his own?" — Ford Madox Ford Seconds of Pleasure O Perfect O Look, I'm not perfect. That's the important thing...

...346.569401 '5 — dc22 2005021504 Manufactured in the United States of America In memory of Yael Saar-Agmon For who in this world can give anyone a character?...knows anything of any other heart — or of his own? — Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion (1915) Fiction here is likely to contain more...