Who do you sympathize with the most? Every member of the Forsyte family deserves a certain amount of sympathy from the reader, for they all are haughty, rather cocksure of themselves and the only thing they care about is their property. They know no such thing as love and friendship. Due to this, I sympathize with every one of them, given that the property one can have is nothing to hold a candle to relationships with their family and friends; and the Forsytes are devoid of such relationships. However, there is one character whom I would like to dedicate this composition to. It is Soames Forsyte, James’s son, who, according to the author, has ‘something round and secret about his whole appearance’. Particularly I would like to speculate on the relationship with his wife, Irene. It is as plain as a pikestaff that their marriage is far from perfect. They hardly ever talk to each other and there is no love between the two, at least from Irene. Yet Soames is supposed to be half-cracked about her, it does not strike me as love. In my estimation, he is an egotist and does not care twopence about what she wants. Had he truly loved her, he would not have made any plans to build a new house without discussing it with her first. At the same time, it is evident that he acts this way in fear of losing her to other men, seeing how sweet and amiable she is to everybody except him. Deep inside he realizes that their marriage is on its last legs and endeavours to withhold it from breaking down for good. Unfortunately, he does not understand that by barring her from the others he will aggravate the situation. If he does want her to love him, he should demonstrate that he deserves it, that he is concerned about her, that he is the right man for her. There is no point in cherishing hopes that one day she will love him back unless he takes any measures. On the one hand, I feel extremely sorry for Soames Forsyte. It is a dreadful thing to have such a great many of possessions yet no one who would truly vex themselves about you. On the other hand, what goes around comes around; he is the only one to blame. He does not care a fig about his nearest and dearest. Then why should they think about him? Soames is the way he is, a true Forsyte – arrogant, tenacious, self-complacent. I doubt he will ever change.