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He convinces his friend Tony Jobling to take Nemo’s room at Krook’s, so that he can spy on Krook and gather information about Nemo. (21) Nearby, Trooper George, a former soldier, runs a shooting gallery. He has borrowed the money for the business from Grandfather Smallweed, a small-time money-lender, and each month George manages to pay enough interest to renew the loan for the principal amount. When Snagsby tells him Jo’s story of the lady who gave him a sovereign, the lawyer sends Snagsby and detective Bucket to Tom-All-Alone’s to find the boy.

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“It’s called ‘The World’s Best Horror Stories,’ and they are not,” he says. Some of them are good, but they are not the best.” Even when being politely unkind to an inanimate object, the director doesn’t like to cast shade on the genre. “I was attracted to monsters when I was in the crib,” Del Toro says from the couch in his horror library.

Krook (“Lord Chancellor”)

Esther Summerson – The character of Esther narrates long portions of Bleak House. She is the only female character in a Dickens novel to do so. Captain Hawdon – In his youth, Captain Hawdon and Lady Dedlock were lovers. Later it’s revealed that Miss Barbary is really the sister of Lady Dedlock and is, in fact, Esther’s aunt.

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When Sir Leicester, who has had a stroke from the shock of Bucket’s revelations, reads the letter from his wife, he instructs Bucket to find her and tell her that he fully forgives her. Bucket enlists the aid of Esther, and, after an exhaustive search, they find Lady Dedlock at the gate of Hawdon’s burial ground, dead. After Esther falls ill, Woodcourt tends to her, and one night he tells Esther that he is in love with her.

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Esther falls ill herself and her face is scarred beyond recognition by the disease. Esther does not mind the loss of her beauty so much, but she is disappointed because she has fallen in love with a young doctor, Mr. Woodcourt, who is currently away at sea. She believes that he will not love her now that she has lost her looks and persuades herself to give up on the romance.

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After a respite at Greenleaf—a marked contrast to Jane’s unhappy Lowood School—Esther is called to be the housekeeper at Bleak House, where she will also be tempted to marry the master of the house. On the way there, she stays at the house of Mrs. Jellyby, whose “telescopic philanthropy” leads to her preoccupation with Africa and to her neglect of her own children. Mrs. Jellyby represents the bleak house of imperial England, engaged around the world but out of touch with the problems at home. Krook’s rooming house is another emblem of such waste and neglect.

The name was taken from the house of a recluse outside Chat ham, known to Dickens as a child. Although Skimpole claims to possess the innocence and openness of a child, he turns out to be more secretive and knowing than he pretends. He colludes with Bucket to “move on” the feverish Jo; he callously ignores the suffering of his wife and children, and his final condemnation of Jarndyce reveals a selfishness that belies his innocent philosophy. His relationship with Jarndyce, who is largely blind to Skimpole’s faults, adds an important dimension to the novel’s critique of philanthropy, suggesting that philanthropy calls for collusion between the philanthropists and their clients.

Bleak House acknowledges the confusion of industrial life, opening with its famous images of London fog. Yet it also offers a guide for how to think about the tangled web of the modern city. The novel discloses a vision of urban life in which everyone from the poor, degraded street sweeper Jo to the haughty aristocratic Lady Dedlock turns out to be tightly connected. Dickens once complained that without the buzzing life and teeming crowds of London, his imagination grew cramped.

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The illness she contracts from Jo and Charley, two of her “outcast” doubles, forces her to confront her self-image, symbolized in the mirrors, and enables her to acknowledge her parentage and her passion. Harold’s wife “had once been a beauty, but was now a delicate high-nosed invalid, suffering under a complication of disorders” (43). Mrs. Rouncewell’s elder son, who has moved away and become an ironmaster; he “would have been provided for at Chesney Wold, and would have been made steward in good season; but he took . “He is a little over fifty perhaps, of a good figure, like his mother; and has a clear voice, a broad forehead from which his dark hair has retired, and a shrewd, though open face. He is a responsible-looking gentleman dressed in black, portly enough, but strong and active.

It was common for him to ask people for their views on his novels and to alter his plots drastically if he anticipated that the public response to them would be negative. The character Esther’s female reticence is increased by her status as an orphan of unknown parentage. She is the child of “no one” and she has been told repeatedly that it would have been better had she never been born. She buries her self-assertiveness with her doll and represses any interest in discovering her parentage. She is comfortable only in a role serving others, as Dame Durden or the Little Old Woman. She projects her self-consciousness onto others, her beauty and sexuality onto Ada, for example, and her anger and resentment onto Caddy.

Esther is chilled when she passes the dark room where Nemo died. (15) Skimpole tells Esther and Jarndyce of the death of Neckett, the bill collector, who “has been arrested by the great Bailiff,” and they seek out Neckett’s orphaned children. They find the two younger ones, Tom and Emma, locked in a tenement room in Bell Yard while Charley, the oldest, is out doing laundry. The neighbors, Mrs. Blinder and Mr. Gridley, keep an eye on the children and tell of their admiration for Charley. While Krook is out of the room, Tulkinghorn removes some papers from Nemo’s portmanteau.

He can preserve Bleak House, even build a replica of it, but he cannot create a new order. Lady Dedlock’s death is only the last in a series of deaths that litter the stage of the novel with bodies. From Tom Jarndyce’s suicide, which occurs before the action of the story, the novel records the deaths of Miss Barbary, Jenny’s baby, Captain Hawdon, Krook, Neckett, Gridley, Tulkinghorn, Jo, and Richard Carstone. All of them are, in some way or other, victims of Chancery. (36) At Boythorn’s house, where she goes to recuperate, Esther finds a mirror in her room with a curtain pulled across it. After Charley has gone to bed, Esther pulls back the curtain, looks in the mirror, and tearfully accepts her changed face.

Has a perfectly natural and easy air, and is not in the least embarrassed by the great presence [Sir Leicester] into which he comes” (27). He is not intimidated by the Dedlocks or their conservative, aristocratic traditions. He runs for Parliament representing the interests of the new industrial class and defeats Sir Leicester’s candidate (28).

Miss Barbary bitterly tells Esther that she was “her mother’s disgrace.” Esther is distraught and does not understand what her Miss Barbary alludes to. Two years later, Miss Barbary has a stroke while Esther is reading to her from the Bible and dies not long after this. At her godmother’s funeral, Esther is approached by a man she has seen before at Miss Barbary’s house. This man is Mr. Kenge and he tells Esther that Miss Barbary was really her aunt, and that Esther is now to be sent to school under the care of her new guardian, a man named Mr. Jarndyce. She is very happy at school and is trained to be a governess.

Sarah Snagsby’s wife, a zealous follower of the Reverend Chadband. She spies on her husband until Bucket finally informs her that her suspicions are groundless (59). Law stationer who hires Nemo to do occasional work for him as a law writer; “a mild, bald, timid man, with a shining head, . He harbors a vague sense of guilt and an anxiety that he is somehow involved in mysteries that he does not understand. He befriends Jo and supplies him with odd half crowns (25).

At first he suspects Lady Dedlock of the murder but is able to clear her of suspicion after discovering Hortense's guilt. Lady Dedlock has no way to know of her husband's forgiveness or that she has been cleared of suspicion, and she wanders the country in cold weather before dying at the cemetery of her former lover, Captain Hawdon (Nemo). “The essential problem is seen in starkly different terms by different segments of society and groups of political leaders.” There’s a right-wing narrative of decline and a left-wing one.