Grancy, and he tells the narrator that Mrs. Claydon has restored to the painting to its original youthful portrayal of Mrs. Grancy’s portrait hung on the wall, surrounded by fine collectibles arranged like a shrine. When he goes into a curtained room off of Claydon’s studio, he finds Mrs. Grancy’s portrait to Claydon in his will.Ī couple years later, the narrator attends Claydon’s latest art exhibition. Grancy look even older and as though she knows her husband is going to die. Grancy has had Claydon alter the portrait again, making Mrs. When the narrator visits him during this time, he finds that Mr. Grancy falls ill and slowly deteriorates, almost dying one summer. Grancy tells the narrator that he had Claydon alter the painting for him, so that Mrs. Grancy’s likeness in her portrait looks older. Grancy’s memory, and the narrator is shocked when he sees that that Mrs. Grancy alone, and he’s surprised to see how much Mr. Confused, the narrator decides to go to visit Mr. However, Claydon mysteriously tells the narrator that he never wants to visit Mr.

Grancy invites the narrator and their old friends over. Grancy have both returned to the United States, Mr. He puts on a brave front, but the narrator can tell that he’s grieving.įive years later, when the narrator and Mr. Grancy meets up with the narrator while passing through Rome on his way to a new job as Constantinople’s secretary of legation. It was three years later, when the narrator is living in Rome, that he hears of Mrs. Grancy’s portrait hung in this room, and the others noticed that Claydon seemed to be in love with the portrait, gazing up at it whenever Mrs. Soon after, the Grancys moved out of their New York City townhouse to a rural estate, where their friends gathered every Sunday in the Grancys’ library. The painting glorified her beauty, portraying her exactly as Mr. Grancy commissioned his friend Claydon, an artist, to paint a portrait of Mrs. Grancy, and in return, he brought out her youthful beauty. Grancy, and they marveled at how beautiful she was. Grancy’s first wife was self-centered and controlling, which made him miserable when she died, and Mr. Grancy was her husband’s support system and his sole source of happiness.

Grancy dies, the unnamed narrator (a friend of the Grancys) is shocked.

The moving finger by agatha christie