Complete Summary Of Story Salvatore By W. Somersat Maugham |

 Summary Of Story Salvatore  In  English By W. Somersat Maugham : 

Salvatore is a story by William Somerset Maugham. The story begins abruptly with the sentence " I Wonder If I Can Do It". Salvatore is a boy of fifteen with a laughing mouth, pleasant face, and carefree eyes. He spends the morning lying on the beach with next to nothing on and his body was as thin as a rail. 

His father was a fisherman who owned his little vineyard and Salvatore acted nursemaid to his two brothers. Since his brothers were younger than him in age so he shouted at them when they ventured out too far while playing and he used to dress them when it was time to climb the hot vine-clad hill in order to attend their afternoon meal at their house located on the hill. 

Salvatore was madly in love with a girl named Grande Marina, She had eyes like forest pools and used to think of herself as the daughter of Caesars. Salvatore and Grande Marina both were engaged and wanted to marry each other but Salvatore could not marry till he had done his military service (Rule of the state in which Salvatore lives). In order to perform his military service, 

Salvatore left the island which he never left before and it was very hard for him to leave his home island and also to part with the girl whom he loved most but however, he left the island in order to join the military service in the navy of King Victor Emmanuel. Since he has never left his home before it was a bit harder for him to live in a battleship with strangers. He walked to noisy, Crowded, Friendless cities, and even he was frightened to cross the streets in these cities. 

He was dreadfully homesick. he wrote to a girl a letter in his shivering letters in which he told her how much he  is reminded of her and he also wrote that after how much time he will be back to the island.  When he went to join military service he was sent to many different places such as first to Spezzia, To venice, To Bari and then finally to china. 

Salvatore came to know that this disease was a form of rheumatism that made him unfit for further military service and thus he was allowed to go back home and Salvatore was overjoyed to know that now he could go home and marry the girl to which he wanted to. What did he care when he was going to the little island he loved so well and the girl who was waiting for him? 

When he returned to Naples he was all his family that is his father, mother, and two brothers who were two big boys by now, met him and there was an event of hugging and kissing when they exchanged their greetings.  Salvatore's eyes searched for the girl in the crowd but he did not found her in the crowd. in the evening Salvatore went to her house when she was sitting at the doorstep with her mother. When he asks her the reason for not coming to receive him to which the girl in a straightforward mood refused to marry him with the reason that she could not marry a man who could not work like a man to which her mother and father also agreed. 

When Salvatore went home he found that all family members knew the whole story but could not dare to talk to Salvatore. Although the girl rejected Salvatore Salvatore did not even say a harsh word for the girl. Then a few months later, Salvatore settled down to his normal working routine and also started helping in his father's Vineyard and fishing. His mother told him that there was a young woman who was willing to marry her. Her name was Assunta. The man to whom she was engaged to killed in Africa during his military service. Assunta was older than he twenty-four or twenty-five. Also if Salvatore married Assunta then they could buy a small vineyard of their own. 

Finally, Salvatore agreed and they both married each other and settled down in a small Whitehouse. Salvatore was now a big great husky fellow and very tall as well as broad. Assunta although was not good looking but she had a good heart and she did not like the girl who has earlier rejected Salvatore. Presently children were born to them. 

It was a hard life Salvatore used to row out in his boat for fishing in the evening with one of his brothers and came back the next morning. When Salvatore used to lie on the beach relaxing after being threatened by rheumatism people used to say him, lazy devils. Sometimes he also used to bring his children also near the seashore for bathing. Life was good and hard enough for Salvatore. 

When the story began a question was asked " I Wondered if I could do it", answering to which the poet says that this question asked by the author just to attract the reader's attention and says that Salvatore who was very poor possessed only one quality which was rarest and the quality was Goodness, just goodness and at this point, the story ends. 

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