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Released in 1904, The Golden Dish is the last completed novel of Henry Wayne. In it, the widowed North american Adam Verver is in Europe with his daughter Maggie. These are wealthy, finely appreciative of Western fine art and culture, and deeply attached to each other. Maggie has all the innocent attraction of so a lot of Wayne' young North american heroines. She actually is engaged to Amerigo, an impoverished Italian prince; he must marry money, and as his name advises, an American heiress is the perfect solution. The golden bowl, first seen in a London curio shop, can be used emblematically throughout the novel. Not solid platinum but gilded crystal, the perfect surface conceals a flaw; it is symbolic of the relationship between the key characters and of the planet where they move. Also in Europe is an old good friend of Maggie's, Charlotte Stant, a girl of great attraction and independence, and Maggie is blindly ignorant to the fact that she and the prince are fans. Maggie and Amerigo are hitched and also have a boy, but Maggie remains reliant for real intimacy on her behalf dad, and she and Amerigo develop increasingly apart. Feeling that her dad has suffered a reduction through her marriage, Maggie determines to find him a better half, and her choice falls on Charlotte. Charlotte's affair with the prince persists, and Adam Verver seems to her to be a ideal and convenient match. When Maggie herself finally comes into ownership of the golden dish, the flaw is exposed to her, and, inadvertently, the truth about Amerigo and Charlotte. Fanny Assingham (an older woman, alert to the truth right from the start) deliberately breaks the dish, and this represents the end of Maggie's innocence. She actually is no pathetic heroine-victim, however. Abstaining from outcry and outrage, she instead calls for the reins and maneuvers people and occasions. She still desires to be with Amerigo, but he must continue being worth having plus they must all be preserved further humiliations and indignities. To be always a better half she must stop to be a princess; Adam Verver and the unhappy Charlotte are banished permanently to America, and the new Maggie will set up a real marriage with Amerigo.
