Sawyer is something of a rowdy version of Alfred Jingle; a young man completely without parental guidance. He would like to marry Arabella Allen and have her money, but he also genuinely likes her. He is inventive, coming up with several ingenious, hapless tricks to increase his medical practice. Like […]
Read more Character Analysis Bob SawyerCharacter Analysis Alfred Jingle
Jingle is one of the most engaging rascals in literature — a tall, thin, shabby young man with a gift for imposture and a hilarious staccato patter. Jingle is Mr. Pickwick’s negative, an alter ego whose career parallels Mr. Pickwick’s precisely. The two men meet as Pickwick starts out on […]
Read more Character Analysis Alfred JingleCharacter Analysis Mr. Wardle
Like Tony Weller, Mr. Wardle can be compared to Mr. Pickwick. Wardle, too, is benevolent, hot-tempered, responsible, fat, and old; but he is also coarser and more aggressively masculine than Mr. Pickwick. He enjoys sports and hunting, which Mr. Pickwick indulges in only when Wardle is present. He is also […]
Read more Character Analysis Mr. WardleCharacter Analysis Tony Weller
Mr. Pickwick becomes like a father to Sam, but Tony Weller is Sam’s actual father. He is generous, innocent, fat, and old like Mr. Pickwick, and both men are threatened in some way by.widows and the law. Unlike Mr. Pickwick, Tony is wholly irresponsible as a father, a quality that […]
Read more Character Analysis Tony WellerCharacter Analysis Sam Weller
As a character, Sam Weller complements Mr. Pickwick, just as Sancho Panza complements Don Quixote. Whereas Mr. Pickwick is innocent and elderly, Sam is experienced and young, the most intelligent character in the novel. If Mr. Pickwick loses his temper easily, Sam is quite self-possessed. While Mr. Pickwick has no […]
Read more Character Analysis Sam WellerCharacter Analysis Samuel Pickwick
Mr. Pickwick is one of Dickens’ greatest creations. A fat old man who becomes a romantic adventurer, Mr. Pickwick acquires form and character as the novel progresses. He has misadventures because he is living in a spiritual Eden, unaware of the presence of deception; then he undergoes a moral education. […]
Read more Character Analysis Samuel PickwickSummary and Analysis Chapter 57
Summary After a week of mysterious trips Mr. Pickwick announces to his friends that he is settling down for good in a newly purchased and furnished home at Dulwich. The Pickwick Club has disbanded. And he tells everyone that the wedding of Snodgrass and Emily Wardle will take place in […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Chapter 57Summary and Analysis Chapters 55-56
Summary Tony Weller finds the will his wife made out, in which she gives 200 pounds to Sam and the rest to Tony. Sam tells his father that the will must be probated before they can come into their inheritance. So the two men go to see Solomon Pell, taking […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Chapters 55-56Summary and Analysis Chapters 52-54
Summary Back in London, Sam’s sweetheart, Mary, who has become the Winkles’ maid, tells Sam that there is a letter for him. After kissing and flirting with Mary, Sam reads that his stepmother has died and that Tony wants him to visit. Sam takes a leave of absence from Mr. […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Chapters 52-54Summary and Analysis Chapters 48-51
Summary Bob Sawyer and Ben Allen are in their Bristol shop discussing their prospects. They have clients but very few can pay. The best thing would be for Bob to marry Arabella and use her 1,000 pounds, except that Arabella has no liking for Bob. As they talk of the […]
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