Dombey and Son | Dombey and Son

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Author: Charles Dickens
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Social realism
Time of Work: Early nineteenth century
Setting: England
Genres: Long fiction, Bourgeois fiction
Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Children, Parents and children, Love or romance, Nineteenth century, Marriage, Class consciousness, England or English people, Honesty, Fathers, Death or dying, Bankruptcy or financial crisis, Corruption, Wealth, Merchants
Locales: London, England, Brighton, England

Paul Dombey, a London merchant, referred to as Mr. Dombey throughout the novel. Twenty successful years in the firm of Dombey and Son have brought wealth to the stern and pompous Mr. Dombey. Ten years of marriage finally bring a son and happiness (despite his wife’s death) to the unemotional, dignified, glossy businessman, for the son will occupy his rightful place in the firm. Jealous and possessive, Mr. Dombey resents his son’s affection for Florence, the older Dombey daughter. Later he sends Walter Gay, a young clerk attentive to the daughter, on an...

Dombey and Son | Dombey and Son

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