Preview: Part II, Chapter 11
Reading boundary
Start: Sydney,” said Mr. Stryver, on that self-same night
Stop after: “I’ll think of it,” said Sydney.
On the same night, Stryver announces a personal decision to Carton. His confident manner makes the conversation less about mutual feeling than about the value Stryver assigns to himself and to the future he imagines.
He recruits Carton as an audience, then interprets Carton’s responses. The exchange offers a companion picture of two men judging love through very different forms of self-knowledge.