Synopsis "The American"

Christopher Newman, a wealthy American, falls in love with a French aristocrat, Claire de Cintre, while visiting Paris. Her family objects very strongly to their engagement because Newman lacks European culture and social status. When Newman learns that Claire's mother, the Marquise, had killed her husband, he threatens her with the evidence. Still she refuses to sanction the marriage. Claire renounces the engagement and determines to be a nun. Newman, disgusted with himself as well as the French family, decides not to reveal the crime and resigns himself to his loss. He is a victim of unalterable cultural differences.

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