The real thing- Perspective Change

While reading The Real Thing by Henry James, the reader can identify a perspective change within the narrator. Originally, the Monarchs come to the painter and present themselves both visually and verbally as being 'high up' or 'high class'. The painter sees that the Monarchs did not come to him to pay for a portrait but to get paid for modeling. the Monarchs financial class is revealed throughout the story to be at a point where they are struggling, and need any money they can get. The monarchs are not very good models, and soon shift their work force for the painter. As the financial standpoint of the couple is revealed further, both the reader and painter see 'the real thing'. If the couple had accepted and been honest about what they were dealign with from the beginning it would have been more authentic or 'real'.  Henry James depicts a clear change in perspective as the truth comes out about the Monarchs. As 'the real thing' is revealed, a new perspective comes into play.