Preview: Part I, Chapter 3
Reading boundary
Start: A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted
Stop after: To be buried alive for eighteen years!
As the coach continues through the night, Dickens pauses over the mystery each person remains to every other. That meditation turns the enclosed travelers, the returning messenger, and the darkness outside into overlapping worlds of private thought.
Imagery follows Jarvis Lorry’s drifting mind. The chapter moves between waking sensation and dreamlike repetition, separating details of the actual journey from his attempt to understand his mission.