The novel ends with Jasper Milvain's triumph symbolizing the compromises that artists have to make.  
Chapter 35, "Fever and Rest," ends with the suicide of Harold Biffen, who leaves a note quoting the novel's most sympathetic figure.  When Dora and Maud come to live with their brother, his desire for money increases.  Soon he has abandoned the disinherited Marian Yule for Amy Reardon, the wife of his foil, Edwin, a part-time clerk who treats writing as a craft, but can't get a break.  The novel ends with Jasper Milvain's triumph symbolizing the compromises that artists have to make.  FTP, identify this 1891 work named for a lane synonymous with hack writers, a novel by George Gissing.
Chapter 35, "Fever and Rest," ends with the suicide of Harold Biffen, who leaves a note quoting the novel's most sympathetic figure.  
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