A Tale of Two Cities

In this section of the reading we are introduced to a new character Miss Pross. Miss Pross is Miss Manettes care taker. Miss Pross is very protective of Miss Manette. When Mr. Lorry is talking to her, she is talking about all the people who come into Miss Manettes's life who don't appreciate her and Miss Pross seems very jealous. She doesn't want to be left out and she also doesn't want Miss Manette to have to let her go. Miss Pross talks of her brother who she believes is the only many worthy of Miss Manette.



The story then goes to Monseigeuners party. The party was held in Paris and was a big deal. Monseigeuner talks about when he ran over a young and killed him. He described this boy as a useless thing...something he could make better by buying someone off. When he said this it really struck me as disturbing. How could someone think this way? But not only is this completely horrible, when the boys father throws the money back at him, he says he would gladly run over any 'commoner' anyday. Ridiculous. This poor man just lost his son and instead of showing a bit of remorse Monseigeuner tries to pay him off. The way he acts here is just like how he acts with other common people on his journey. He is a heartless man but I wonder if he is going to have some bit of importance latter on in the story, something dealing with Miss Manette or Mr. Lorry or one of the others.

Then we learn that Mr. Monsegeuner is Mr. Darneys uncle. Big surprise there, even if Mr. Darney does not trust his uncle some of him may have rubbed off on him and may be how he acts. I wonder if this will come to be a bigger part with Miss Manette??

This book likes to go from month to month to year, it gets confusing. One moment we're in the present and the next it is a year later it tends to get confusing and hard to follow. This must just be the way Dickens gets through a long period of time, hitting the high points, is a short amount of time.