This leaves Strether to wonder what might be going on between Chad and the mother. To his surprise, Chad assists in arranging a very advantageous marriage for Madame de Vionnet's daughter. He develops some feelings for Madame de Vionnet. It is also clear that he is not exerting himself to talk Chad into returning. His own interest in returning to America wanes. Strether himself is introduced to Paris in a way that starts to open his own mind and heart to a larger vision of the world's possibilities. He learns that Madame de Vionnet is married but has been separated from her husband for years. He wonders if the lovely daughter is what has brought about the improvements in Chad. When the introduction occurs, Strether finds the mother and the daughter to be refined, virtuous and thoroughly admirable.
When Chad offers to introduce him to some of his close friends-Madame de Vionnet and her grown daughter Jeanne-Strether eagerly accepts. Strether wonders what has caused the transformation he sees in Chad. This is not what Strether expected of someone in the grip of an inappropriate romantic entanglement. Chad exhibits restrained urbanity, elegance and manners. Once Strether locates Chad, he is surprised to discover that Chad has improved from when he last knew him in America. Strether meets Maria Gostrey who delivers valuable insights about things European to him (and the reader). The reader is given to understand, in indirect ways, that if Strether fails, his engagement to Mrs. The Newsome family believes that Chad might be overstaying his European tour because of an inappropriate romantic liaison, perhaps with a vulgar adventuress. The mission he has been given is to talk her son, Chad, into returning to the family business in Woollett, Massachusetts. Strether, a middle-aged American of insignificant means, is sent to Paris by Mrs. The book is entirely told from Strether's point of view and chronicles his change from an American to a European view of things. Lewis Lambert Strether, the protagonist of the novel, is a cultured man in his fifties from the fictional town of Woollett, Massachusetts, who is dispatched to Paris to find Chad, the wayward son of his fiancée Mrs Newsome. The novel is written in the third-person narrative from Strether's point of view. The novel is a dark comedy which follows the trip of protagonist Lewis Lambert Strether to Europe to bring the son of his widowed fiancée back to the family business. The Ambassadors is a 1903 novel by Henry James, originally published as a serial in the North American Review (NAR).
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