SOURCE: “Prospecting for Meaning in Our Mutual Friend,” in Dickens Studies Annual, Vol. 19, 1990, pp. 231-46.
In the following essay, Gaughan explores the various characters in Our Mutual Friend and the different strategies they employ to negotiate their way around the roles each has been assigned by a rigid social system.
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