By James Weigel Jr.
Relates a few of the actions and adventures of the contributors of the Pickwick membership.
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Dickens idealized his relationship with his father in Pickwick Papers, but his mother reappears in many guises as the threatening middle-aged woman. Dickens never forgave his mother for wanting to send him back to the blacking factory after he had been taken out. While these psychological pressures are behind the novel, Dickens' writing ability alone transformed his fantasies into a towering art. CHAPTERS 48-51 Summary Bob Sawyer and Ben Allen are in their Bristol shop discussing their prospects.
Bardell's humiliation, she is imprisoned in Fleet Prison, where Mr. Pickwick is taking his evening walk. On seeing the woman, Sam Weller has a bright idea and sends Job Trotter to fetch Mr. Perker, the lawyer. Mr. Perker arrives at the Fleet the next morning and proceeds to argue with Mr. Pickwick about why he should pay. Prison is no place for a woman, and Mrs. Bardell has agreed to forgo damages if Mr. Pickwick will pay her lawyers' fee. In addition, she has signed a paper saying that Dodson and Fogg egged her on.
Dickens was faced with a dilemma. He could use Jingle to show Mr. Pickwick's power of forgiveness, which the plot demanded; but to do so he would have to change Jingle's character completely. com satisfactory, yet under the circumstances Dickens did the best he could. The basis of a debtors' prison was debt. Ironically, the prisoners have to pay for everything they get, for rooms, food, clothes, for errands they want performed. They even have to pay to keep unwanted roommates from living with them.