I am reaching the chapters in Our Mutual Friend where he is connecting some of the characters with different plots, and at the same time, introducing new characters with different issues. It is hard to keep track of every new character and why they are introduced, but when I look back on what I read after reading further, you can see where certain families first associated with each other and why.
He starts the story setting up the relationship between a man named Gaffer Hexam and Riderhood, and how they used to be partners, but once Riderhood stole from a person, Gaffer wanted nothing to do with him. While this was happening, the scene outlay was describing a person at the bottom of Gaffer's boat, so I don't know what to think about who did what with Harmon.
Dickens has introduced a rich family, the Veneering's who are the new rich people in the town, and they invite people they don't know over for dinner, and the conversations consist of a story that Lady Tippens only heard gossip on, and Mortimer takes it upon himself to correct her. The story was about a man who left his son a girl to marry, for she was in the will. While finishing the story, Mortimer gets a letter that says the man who the story was about, had drowned not too long ago.This is when Gaffer's son gets involved with Mortimer, because the son was the one who had delivered the news. The son lied about what his father's first name was, and said it was Jesse instead of Gaffer, and I can't figure out why he would say that.
Then Dickens portrays the poor family, and the troubles they are having. Gaffer's daughter thinks he needs her, and Miss Potterson is trying to convince Lizzie (the daughter) otherwise. Miss Potterson suspects both Gaffer and Riderhood had something to do with Harmon's death, so she kicks both of them out of her bar. I'm slowly figuring out the plots for each character and who's involved in what situation. And of course, how all this conjoins with Edmund's story.
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