SOURCE: “The Education of the Reader in Our Mutual Friend,” in Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 34, No. 1, June, 1979, pp. 41-58.
In the following essay, Mundhenk maintains that some of the confusing plot elements in Our Mutual Friend are caused by the author's deliberate attempts to manipulate and deceive his readers and thus to educate them about the limitations of individual perception.
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