| Summary: | The aim of this study is to examine Galsworthy's portrait of Soames Forsyte through the course of six novels, to interpret the changes in that portrait, and to determine whether Soames really developed, as leading critics suggest, from a villainous to a heroic character. Galsworthy wrote his best novel, The Man of Property, in an uncharacteristically rebellous mood because of the circumstances of his courtship of Ada. As he grew older and more tolerant, as he and his wife were accepted into the society against which they had rebelled, and as his position in literature became firmly established, he looked at Soames with increasing insight and compassion.
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