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A review by allie_hilleson
Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
5.0
This is one of Dickens lesser known works and it is one of my favorites. The story deals mostly with selfishness and greed and how it can effect those around you. It leads to bad things such as estrangement, murder, and suicide. It also shows how certain circumstances and people can teach and grow you.
As with most of Dickens works he does use some gritty issues from the time to convey his story but nothing terrible.
It was written not after his first visit to America which was not long before the Civil War so he does have some... interesting perceptions of Americans that come out in a portion of the book. In the postscript, however, he tells that he visited America again under much more favorable circumstances and no longer felt the way he did when writing the book.
As with most of Dickens works he does use some gritty issues from the time to convey his story but nothing terrible.
It was written not after his first visit to America which was not long before the Civil War so he does have some... interesting perceptions of Americans that come out in a portion of the book. In the postscript, however, he tells that he visited America again under much more favorable circumstances and no longer felt the way he did when writing the book.