Complex sentence: Kate's boyfriend, the financially struggling muckraking journalist Merton Densher (Linus Roache), wants to marry her, but is skeptical of Kate's intentions, despite her pleas for him to wait as she tries to find a way out of her dilemma.
Split into simpler sentences: Kate's boyfriend, the financially struggling muckraking journalist Merton Densher (Linus Roache), wants to marry her, but is skeptical of Kate's intentions. Despite her pleas for him to wait as she tries to find a way out of her dilemma.