Preview: Part II, Chapter 5
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Start: Those were drinking days, and most men drank hard.
Stop after: resigning himself to let it eat him away.
The legal victory invites a closer look at how Stryver and Carton actually work. Dickens’s “lion” and “jackal” metaphor asks who receives public credit and who performs the difficult labor behind it.
During a long night, Carton’s discipline on another man’s business contrasts with the story he tells about his own wasted life.