Give your comment on the character Charles Strickland

In the story “The Moon and Sixpence”, the main character named Charles Strickland sacrificed everyone and everything just to follow his inner vision, which is to paint. He does not care about society as well as material things; he just lives for ideas and is indifferent to everything else. As a man of social strings attached, he is the heartless, selfish and irresponsible one but as an artist, he is surely the great, brave and devoted one.

To begin with, Charles Strickland is the heartless, selfish and irresponsible person as far as an ordinary person is concerned. The story, as it is told, Strickland is “worthy member of society, a good husband and father, an honest broker”. However, one day in a natural movement of absolute freedom, he just leaves. Afterwards, in meeting after meeting with the narrator, Strickland proves himself to be nothing else but empty of normal response
“Then, what in God’s name have you left her for?”
“I want to paint”
He ...