The will ,one of Barrie's more brilliant achievements in the difficult one-act form, illustrates most of his qualities as a dramatist: quickly and sharply , in the three short scenes all acted out in a single room, it sums up the lives of two people. The judgment the play passes on the final achievement of these lives is stern and unrelenting.But it is also kindly:gently but ruefully,Barrie shows us what our prized feelings of loving generosity only too often come to.