![]() ![]() He can be angry and deluded, but he's ultimately still a likable character. However, his love for Phipps and his original country of England makes him likable. It's sometimes hard to understand why he has to put himself through so much before he can come to the point where he goes back home. The novels plot is shaped around the interactions between two author-characters who find themselves in a battle over writing about the life of an Australian. ![]() ![]() Throughout the novel you're itching for Jack Maggs to drop his illusions and return back to Australia. The reader, as yet, doesn't even know his name. One thinks he's a farmer, and another a servant wearing his master's old clothes. All the passengers speculate on the purpose of his trip to London, examining his enormous shoulders, rough face and fine clothes. He's a mystery both to the other passengers in the carriage and to the reader. In Jack Maggs, a novel set in early-nineteenth-century London, Carey blends the genres of historical novel, fictional biography and metafiction with an. The scene at the beginning of the book where Jack arrives in London. So it's not necessarily pleasant, but it is definitely more realistic. However, it radically updates the sensibilities of the Victorian novel, dealing with abortion, homosexuality and rape. I really enjoyed “Great Expectations,” and though this book is nothing like it, it has some of the same kind of extreme characters and extremely enjoyable writing as Dickens' novel. ![]()
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