Tristram wrote: "As to why there are so many incomplete families in the novel, I'd say that this must have been a faithful picture of contemporary reality. After all, many people would die young and leave children behind."
I've been thinking of other Dickens books and I don't think they do any better with the mother and father thing.
I've been thinking of other Dickens books and I don't think they do any better with the mother and father thing.