CH 30
The atrocious state of the Jellyby family brings misery to
all members, except the wife. This whole situation appears mysoginistic and
rather exaggerated. The idea that a wife focused on her career, job or
hobby means a poor family wife and
disasterous monetary situation is ridiculous. Although the wife is exaggerated,
the whole idea is still there.
CH 31
Esther is an easily identifiable saint, but her latest
sacrifice has trumped all previous doings. She sits with her desperately ill
maid, Charley, knowingly subjecting herself to the contagion. Her sacrificial
nature compounds her devotion and also by resolving to keep Ada away, she exhibits
her common sense. The character of Esther is the ideal human.
32
Mr. Krook spontaneously combusts. He declared himself Lord
High Chancellor and got a fate, according to the narrator, fitting for all
those like him. The narrator doesn’t make any particularly snarky comments or
use irony as a weapon. They uncharacteristically directly make the comparison
between Krook’s fate and the deserved one of the Chancellor. This seems to be
out of character and does not fit in with the narrator’s personality.
CH 33
Mrs. Snagsby is a ridiculous, overbearing woman. Her
character is overbearing and stifles her husband. This is at least the third
woman who is represented as just an awful person and wife. The author might be
trying to expound in the idea that social strife causes unnecessary suffering fir
all people, even if it is expressed in different ways.
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