Elizabeth’s Reviews > The Forsyte Saga > Status Update

“It’s [the Forsyte] wealth and security that makes everything possible; makes your art possible, makes literature, science, and even religion, possible. Without Forsytes, who believe in none of these things, but turn them all to use, where should we be? My dear sir, the Forsytes are the middlemen, the commercials, the pillars of society, the cornerstones of society; everything that is admirable!” (194).