DAISEY, a Story by Somerset Maugham
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- Опубликовано: 13 окт 2024
- "Daisy" by Somerset Maugham is set in the small town of Blackstable, where Miss Reed, a local woman, discovers that Daisy Griffith has eloped with an officer. The news shocks the townspeople, especially as Daisy's father refuses to believe the story and searches for her. The Griffiths receive a letter from Daisy, claiming she has......
Why should we ever resort to reading tabloids, when we have it all here in the glorious language of Somerset Maugham, & such a beautiful voice to read it all. ❤Thank you!
From another era...but people stay the same...I think many of us have over the years been too concerned with fitting in and what other people will say! Maybe we have alienated loved ones by not taking action or showing love and understanding when they needed us!
'They'....what they shall think...what they will say if....let us be brave enough to stand up to the 'They's'!
God bless, Merle.
Hi Merle, can't believe I saw your post .....such a coincidence. Yes, the fallen world & the people that have been alienated from the creation & from one another need redemption so much !
@@mariebotha4478 it’s amazing you say that when you see how uncharitable and unkind the so-called Christian people in this story were. People are full of fear and they want to believe in a higher power or creator when there is none. The most Evil unchristian things I have ever seen have been done in the name of religion
So many people wear their religion and miss the message and purpose of existence…live and help live.
The thing that I took away from this story most was how misunderstood people can be. For the mother to have the nerve to say that she always loved her and the father was so cold. How she had deceived him.. stashing away those letters! And in the end there was never enough conversation for the daughter or the father to truly understand what had happened. This is what comes from evil hearted people.
I don’t know what is more important: what the writer does say or what he doesn’t tell. It’s his genius!
What a satisfying story!
Oh yes
A beautiful story about the complexity of relationships and moral expectations. I found the turnaround of good fortunes to be satisfying.
I was Daisey in my past. My mother was as cold as Mrs. Griffith. My mom made one of my sisters marry a man she did not love. At 14 I overheard my mother say to my father," I will not bring up a bastsard child. She has to marry him or give her baby up at birth." I was so unhappy to hear how cold and cruel my mother was. She had always been cold to me and I in turn tried my best to earn her love but to no avail. At 76 I learned from a DNA test the father who raised me was not my biological father. It was someone who, while my dad was away fighting in the Pacific theater my mother had an affair with. She became pregnant with me 6 months after my dad returned to the States. Once, when I asked her years ago how she felt finding out she was pregnant with me, she replied," oh, I was so happy.....then I could quit my job." How deceiving a woman she was to all who knew her I thought. She pretended to love my dad all those yrs so she didn't have to work outside the home. .. she was a slave to that deception I believe. Maybe having other affairs throughout their marriage even. I always felt like I didn't belong in my family. I looked different than my sisters I thought and I acted differently too. I was warm hearted while the others seemed judgmental and tended to carry grudgesand be jealous of each other. I couldn't wait to leave home because of there coldness. I, like Daisey, tried to love them but nothing caused them to change. They just took and took ftom me. My dad who raised me even hated his own mother before he died because of lies my mother told him about her. I believe many who read this story will find themselves in it as well. There are cold, cruel people who raise loving souls. Souls that want so much to only be loved unconditionally. 😢
So hard for you. But, you survived.
I hope your adult life was good. Blessings
Sad that at the age you are now you still keep this memory alive😮
@@Angela-cc1hd She was probably deeply reminded by this story. I'm sure she would love to forget it. I know I would like to forget the hurtful things people have done to me.
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Sad to hear what happened to you !💙💙💙🏴🏴🏴
I love this perfect piece of art; this is my second reading and it's more beautiful than the first some time back. Thank you for bringing it to me again . Your generous, hard work is appreciated by me and many more. Best wishes to you and yours from Chicago.
Few stories have included so many despicable characters in so few chapters…
It serves them right. Go Daisy! ❤
What a poignant little tale… dear Daisy and her father are mere victims of haughty , malicious family
Father is no better than mother, yuck!
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.jealousy and greed seem to be the hallmark of humanity!!! Depressing!
He is such an elegant writer but, this one touchine in a very particular way. The people were so real, authentic. I sniffled st the end as the beautiful music quietly played. Thank you so much for bringing this to all of.us great literature fans. I feel like all the characters are presently carrying on their lives that did not end when the story did.
Thank you very much for sharing 💗💗💗
One of the beauties of Maugham’s work is that they will forever stand the test of time.
Thank you so much for sharing💙💙💙
"What we have here is a failure to communicate"!
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Really good story, story of hypocrisy, which seems to be a recurrent theme with Maugham.
Yes. One of the things that makes him " great " is his refusal to judge . He understood .!! We're all just playing various parts in the great tragi - comedy of Life..
Well, I thought I knew all Somerset Maugham’s short stories and short novels, that I’ve read (and re-read) over the past 60 or so years; in anthologies purchased from second hand bookshops. But here on Neural Surfer’s channel are a few I’ve not come across, “Daisy” being one of them. Thanks for publishing these.
It turns out that this is one of Maugham’s earliest short stories; published in 1899, with five other stories in a volume called “ORIENTATIONS”. The other five are “The Punctiliousness of Don Sebastian”; “A Bad Example”; De Amicitia’; “Faith” and “The Choice of Amyntas”. This was the third work published by him, after “Liza of Lambeth” and “The Making of a Saint”, both novels.
Maugham, P.G. Wodehouse, W.W. Jacobs, Saki (H.H. Monro), F. Anstey (Thoma’s Anstey Guthrie) and O. Henry (W.S. Porter) amongst other writers born in the second half of the 19th century, wrote wonderful and often witty stories. Perhaps a little dated for the 21st century, but nonetheless really good reads. Yes, some may not be politically correct, but SO WHAT! They were written in a very different era.
My one criticism of the reader used by Neural Surfer in his W.S Maugham offerings, is that to me his tone of voice is rather harsh and tending on aggressiveness, which I find detracts somewhat from enjoyment of the story. The reader on Diogen’s audiobook channel is much easier on the ear.
In the illustration, why is there a woman standing in the canal, with the boats!?
It looks like she‘s walking on water. And the cablesfrom the telegraph pole go nowhere, if you follow the lines to the left.
I loved hearing my family name of Golding used in this story 😊
Very good story, you have to move on from unpleasant people, or they will haunt you always and will stop you having happiness 😮
Imagine, people attending church on the regular but never grasping the teaching about judgement and forgiveness.
Happens all the time.
Thank you Maryanne.
Thank you
If I were a fiction writer, I’d probably make all bad guys into good guys. I’d have George go visit Daisy and be a sympathetic supportive brother, which wouldn’t make very realistic fiction. I guess I’ll stick with being a musician.
Keeping up appearances. What would Mrs Bucket say. Or i should say Mrs Bouquet
….She wouldn’t have been cruel to Daisy (as her mother was)….Say what you will about Hyacinth & her antics…she was never cruel…
I REALLY ENJOYED KEEPING UP APPEARANCES, BTW DAISY WAS A SISTER OF HYACINTH, HER OTHER SISTER WAS MARRIED TO ONSLOW.
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At least back then, people had the dignity to be embarrassed about "indiscretions." These days, people have no dignity, and there are no "indiscretions" that would embarrass anyone...😢
I cried for Mr Griffith and Daisy.😞 I hope Daisy was able to find love and comfort in a family with Sir Herbert. Maybe one day Mr Griffith will write to her again, without her mother's influnce, for her to come home one last time. He can beg her forgiveness and she his and he will see his grandchildren before he dies of his broken heart?
This is very true
social media proves it .. people are shameless
When a comment starts with "At least back then" or "People nowadays" followed by how times have changed for the worse, you can bet that the rest of the comment will be cliché, too.
Thank goodness people care more about their children nowadays.
The music truck at the end! Can you please disclose the composer or the name of the composition? Thank you.
A I music, like the ridiculous AI illustration.
Piety has always been the problem.
FALSE piety is, indeed, abhorrent ….But true piety is a wonderful gift….
Superb
An sad story of long ago provincial life.
Nice!
Wonderful.
I would rather that Mr. Griffiths had broken down in tears. Saying I've always lived you, always. Then Daisey would know the truth.
The author certainly created a revolting family.
It’s Victorian pulp fiction, essentially. One step up.
Ron Hanks is just what we need for Colorado. ❤
Really? Why does everything have to be political?
What?
excellent channel. i truly enjoy it. fyi: “daisy” is misspelled in the title. happy father’s day!
is there a part four?
Were you expecting a sunset?
It says part three at end of narrative
There is NO part four. The story ends at 1:07:40.
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Thank you 🙏
8:36 8:40 this is very true 😮
Why does it say part 3?
Heaven only knows! The story ends at 1:07:40.
Is there a "Daisey" part 4?
There is NO part 4. The story ends at 1:07:40.
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A little bit trivial for Maugham but still worth listening!
This was a HORROR story 😳 never heard such hypocrisy upon hypocrisy.
"Christian " that is laughable for those women in the church.
Poor father, poor Daisy a vipers pit.
Disaster.
No hate like Christian hate 😂
Or those who hate Christians....
I don’t know ANY Christians that act like this. Thank God that He doesn’t treat us like that.
I know plenty of christians who act like this. Nowadays, Daisy could have been a gay guy rejected by his christian family. If only religion could be a guarantee of morality, then i would convert at once.
Wow, you must not get around much. And just where is this mythical God when children are being abused. Nowhere to be found and people say oh it is just mysterious ways.. no it is because there is no God.
I do. The mother in her righteous indignation is a good example.
I do. And I know the consequences.
Oh baloney.
So fanciful, so unrealistic. No Barron would marry an actress, period.
What a ridiculous thing to say. Men of far loftier ranks than Barron have married actresses.
They sometimes did long ago, if she were particularly beautiful
And you are an expert because you were a contemporary of the author or is that just your point of view looking back from this point in time?
How very silly you are. Men of higher rank than a Baron have married actresses. Just use Google.
What is a 'Barron'? If you mean aristocratic males didn't marry actresses, sadly you are very wrong. The tradition continues to this day.
Poor, poor Daisy!! Feel sorry for her poor old Dad too!!! 😢😢