Charles Dickens Regrets Charles Darnay/Lucie Manette Relationship

Recently, J.K. Rowling announced that she regretted the Ron/Hermoine relationship in the Harry Potter series. No doubt this will spur other major authors to come forward with regrets about their own character pairings. Indeed, one has just surfaced. Charles Dickens.

“Man,” Dickens apparently commented, “I don’t know what I was thinking with that Charles Darnay/Lucie Manette thing in A Tale of Two Cities. I totally should have had Lucie end up with Sydney Carton. I just put her with Darnay because I could wring a good moment out of it, but she really belonged with Carton.”

Asked why he would re-decide after all this time, Dickens apparently commented: “Hey, I can do it if Rowling can do it. Why let her and not me? By the way…I always thought of Jarvis Lorry as gay. I didn’t want to face criticism by actually mentioning that in the book, but I always thought of him that way. Just wanted you all to know that now.”

When it was pointed out that one reason Rowling could do these things and he couldn’t was the fact that Dickens has been dead since 1870, he reportedly stated: “Screw you guys…I do what I want.”