"The Painted Veil" is told from the point of view of Kitty, a beautiful English party girl, who is being pushed to make a beneficial marriage by her family. When her younger sister becomes engaged the pressure increases on Kitty and she agrees to marry a shy, intelligent scientist home on leave from Hong Kong. Not the brillian match she hoped to achieve, but good enough. Kitty is soon bored by her devoted husband, Walter, and strays. Walter finds out and forces Kitty to face the fact that her dreams of true love are not ever going to happen. When Walter is volunteers to doctor a cholera ridden area of China, Kitty goes with him to avoid the humiliation of divorce.
Once there, Kitty begins to change. She sees her husband in a different way, through the eyes of the people he is caring for. She also begins to see herself.
I first heard about this story because I had seen the movie. Both stories convey the hope that we can grow and change -- become better people.
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