There was a deal table before the fire: upon which were a candle, stuck in a ginger-beer bottle, two or three pewter pots, a loaf and butter, and a plate. In a frying-pan, which was on the fire, and which was secured to the mantelshelf by a string, some sausages were cooking; and standing over them, with a toasting-fork in his hand, was a very old shrivelled Jew, whose villainous-looking and repulsive face was obscured by a quantity of matted red hair. He was dressed in a greasy flannel gown, with his throat bare; and seemed to be dividing his attention between the frying-pan and the
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- Mixture of emotions & images - seems like a refuge, atmosphere covers up evil and malevolence, ‘Devil’ with a ‘great-coat’ on, compared to the devil, Fagin’s toasting fork → devil’s pitching fork
- Dicken’s gives good characters beauty vs making the criminals ugly and beastly
Sausages vs gruel
- better food hasn’t been earn’t through ‘ethical’ means but things are improving for Oliver - ‘giving a boy more than gruel turns him mad’ - Fagin’s boys are criminals
- Parody of a domestic environment, Fagin as the parent (truly grooming them)
