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into the background, and Mr. Wickfield calls Uriah his torturer, and he says, here's a quote, before him I have step by step abandoned name and reputation, peace and quiet, house and home.
Okay, so he's saying that Uriah has sort of systematically insinuated himself into every facet of Mr. Wickfield's life,
such that he now runs the law firm and lives in the house.
So he's taken over Mr. Wickfield's whole life, essentially, and far from being happy about it, as you might be.
I mean, there's a version of this in which, you know, you've taken on a promising new partner and he's taking the reins of things.
That could be good.
But Mr. Wickfield is not that.
He feels that he's being tortured.
And then, of course, there's Agnes.
the final piece of Uriah's puzzle, I think.
She's kind of like the biggest prize, because marrying her is the thing that would truly elevate Uriah out of his lower-class station and into her middle-class one.
And that's not to say that he doesn't love her.
He may love her, or he might think he loves her.
I mean, she's wonderful, so who wouldn't love her?
But I also think, and we talked about this before a while ago,
But I also think that marrying Agnes is the final step, because in doing that, he will completely take over the family.
He becomes the family, essentially.
He'd be the head of the family when Mr. Wickfield is gone, and his children will be firmly middle class when he himself was firmly lower class.
So this feat of social climbing that he has attempted would be truly accomplished if he were able to marry Agnes.