What?
No one has murdered Mrs. Nickleby?
Oh, in a book chock full of fortune hunters of all kinds, including Miss Bray, Nicholas seems the first, maybe the only, person to feel this is shameful.
He overdoes it to the point of being a barrier to natural happiness.
So much so that he urges his mother not to encourage the feelings of Kate and Frank Cheeryble for each other, she being poor and he being so rich.
Even the idea of such a marriage, brought to the attention of the C brothers, would expose them to only too understandable suspicion of fortune hunting, he thinks, he and Kate and their mother.
And the shame he feels at the bare thought of that suspicion is too much for him.
Reading Nickleby.
No comments:
Post a Comment