Wilkie Collins’ The Women in White begins in the perspective of Walter Hartright, a drawing master who has recently taken a job and is on his way. While traveling he helps a woman in white named Anne Catherick. Hartright thinks nothing of the encounter except that he found it odd the she was dressed in all white. But he later finds out that she has escaped from an asylum and is on the run. After finally arriving and prospering at his new job, Hartright takes a liking to Miss Laura Fairlie and befriends Marian Halcombe, her half-sister. The two women each share a relation to the owner of the house. However because Laura is scheduled to marry, Marian sees it best to send Walter away but not before telling him that Laura was marrying the man that was after the woman in white named Sir Percival Glyde.
This is one of the first signs of secrecy in the book because Laura Fairlie ends up withholding information of her first love from her husband. Inevitably he finds for himself and becomes enraged. Hartright finds it odd but leaves the country trying to forget is first love. After the marriage takes place Glyde attempts to get Laura to sign over her fortune to him because of his debt. After the being refused by Laura and also Miss Halcombe finding out too much information, Glyde and his friend Count Fosco decide it is best to switch Laura with her doppelganger Anne, into the roles or each other’s lives. They do this because in order to gain access to Laura’s money, Glyde and Fosco must fake Laura’s death.
By this time Hartright has returned to the country and after being alerted what was going on by Miss Halcombe, he then decides to uncover all the Baronet and the Count seem to be hiding. In order to regain Laura’s identity Hartright mu...
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... that Laura had been done unjustly. No matter how hard Glyde is determined to keep all of his secrets a secret, in the end it cost him his life. This is another reason why some would argue that they defeated themselves. But if it was not for Walter and Marian getting closer to the truth Glyde would not have been so worried of the truth coming out. So in the end Glyde’s obsessed desire for money is what ruins his plan. There are several ways he could have gone about the situation. If Glyde had just simply been honest with his Laura and told her of his debts, she may have helped him out. Instead he chose to be deceitful and keep all of his secrets hidden. Money can do dangerous things to a person and cause them to act irrationally. Money really is the root of all evil.
Works Cited
Collins, Wilkie. The Woman in White. Radford: Wilder Publications, LLC. 2008. Print.
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