ABSTRACT
Hulton Getty (HG) had written ending to his Lover-Shadow section in June 1935, but he never used it. Among the suppressed materials are five pages devoted primarily to the Lover-Shadow and his failure to realize her. While HG understood that his Lover-Shadow was a dream, an ideal of imaginative hope, he also seemed to deceive himself into believing that he could be loyal to one woman, for even when the “ideal woman” did indenture herself to him, as his wife Jane did, HG became just as dissatisfied and just as unfaithful. HG came to accept failure, although he continued to deflect the blame, throwing it back on the women and the society. HG went on to speak of himself as having been an intellectual born of common origins, whose “keenest feeling seems to have been a cold anger at intellectual and moral pretentiousness.”
