The Little Man: A Farcical Morality

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Galsworthy's brief one-act farce-morality follows an English couple on a Continental railway who observe various bystanders' failure to help a woman in distress — each too comfortable, too indifferent, or too bound by propriety to act — and asks what 'good character' actually means in practice. It is a concentrated satirical demonstration of class hypocrisy, taking the form of a railway-carriage vignette. Brief and sharply observed, it makes a complete and satisfying reading experience in under twenty minutes.