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A Family Man : in three acts

Chapter 10: GALSWORTHY'S PLAYS
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The play is a three-act domestic drama set in a provincial town that centers on a prominent household as the paterfamilias faces a mayoral nomination and attempts to manage family reputation. Scenes move between the family study, an artist's studio, and the mayor's office, tracking strained relations with an estranged daughter, sibling tensions within the firm, servants' interventions, and local political maneuvering. Themes include duty, social respectability, generational conflict, and the compromises demanded by public ambition.