Faith Moore

And he did it in front of David to demonstrate his power over him.

This is the chapter when David should finally have realized that he is the one who should marry Agnes, and it should have ended with him proposing.

Seriously, Dickens is so good.

I'm a 45-year-old father of six getting angry at a fictional character for choosing the wrong girl to marry.

What is the world coming to?

This is what I mean when I keep saying that reading and talking about these books will make the world a better place.

When we feel this deeply for characters that were invented by a human imagination, we are experiencing what it is to be truly human, and that's important.

now more than ever, I think.

So remember, when we first met Uriah, we weren't sure, and David wasn't sure, if he was just kind of really weird and socially awkward or

and he deserved our sympathy, or if there was something more sinister going on.

And I think every time Uriah has shown up in the story since then, the scales have tipped just a little bit more toward sinister.

And every time that David has encountered him, Uriah has kind of implied more and more strongly that,

that he's actually after something.

He's not just sort of going along, doing his work, and being rewarded by various advancements.

He is actively social climbing.

He's actively trying to take over Mr. Wickfield's law firm and marry his daughter, and in this way, rise above his station and become a much, much,

higher person socially than he really has any right to be.

And this whole humble thing, we've come to see it's really just a means to an end.

It's the way that he gets what he wants because it allows people to think he's nobody and not pay attention to what he's doing until it's too late.

And Uriah essentially admits this in this chapter.