![]() ![]() Though he’d rather remain “free”, the marriage is not without happiness and mutual respect. After a while she tricks him into outing their involvement and he finds himself in an involuntary marriage. He becomes secretly engaged to Dagmar Randel, the daughter of a semi-successful businessman. (A child that he acknowledges and “does right by” by securing adoption into a good home and by paying support.) However, he does not always live by high moral principles, as he has flings and love interests, and fathers an illegitimate child. ![]() ![]() And though the two lust for each other, he does not want to persuade her into lewdness, because “should he succeed he’d lose respect for her, and should he fail he’d lose respect for himself.” Ultimately Lydia marries an older, well-to-do historian and author, and moves from Stockholm to live with her husband in the countryside.Īrvid often uses his and Lydia’s unrealised love as a springboard for philosophies on moral and duty. Arvid feels he cannot offer marriage, as he’s not in a financial position to provide a comfortable life for her. He falls in love with a young girl, Lydia Stille, the daughter of a once famed Swedish painter. He becomes a journalist after passing on the opportunity to study to become a teacher. Not an educated man, but intellectual nonetheless. We follow the life of Arvid Stjärnblom, a young, intelligent young man of lower middle-class origin. ![]()
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