One of the saddest and psychologically profound novels of Dickens. A novel in which he ruthlessly unveils the soul of the early Victorian bourgeois, deprived of human feelings and obsessed with the thirst for profit. Such is Mr. Dombey, a...
rather respectable man who never breaks the rules of morality. So why does his respectability, his notions of duty, honor, and decency ruin the lives of all his loved ones – and even his own? Dickens does not provide a direct answer to this question; however, the story of Mr. Dombey's daughter Florence and her beloved Walter Gay, who comes from a simple working-class family, these true representatives of a new outlook on life, in which there is room not only for duty but also for feelings, instills hope for the future in the reader.
One of the saddest and psychologically profound novels of Dickens. A novel in which he ruthlessly unveils the soul of the early Victorian bourgeois, deprived of human feelings and obsessed with the thirst for profit. Such is Mr. Dombey, a rather respectable man who never breaks the rules of morality. So why does his respectability, his notions of duty, honor, and decency ruin the lives of all his loved ones – and even his own? Dickens does not provide a direct answer to this question; however, the story of Mr. Dombey's daughter Florence and her beloved Walter Gay, who comes from a simple working-class family, these true representatives of a new outlook on life, in which there is room not only for duty but also for feelings, instills hope for the future in the reader.
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