“End of a Chapter”—the last work by Galsworthy—consists of three parts: “The Girl Waits” (1931), “The Desert in Bloom” (1932), and “To the Other Shore” (1933).
The plot of the first part is the struggle of the main heroine, Dinnie Cherrell, to save her brother from the court that threatens him.
The central conflict of the second part is the clash between “old” England and that part of its youth that, in the trenches of the First World War, lost its illusions about the justice of bourgeois civilization.
The third part is the story of the divorce proceedings of Dinnie’s sister, Clare Courven. Here, the author returns to the problem of the bourgeois marriage as a form of property—one he raised in “The Forsyte Saga.”