oliver twist be to have controversy as well a success follow it after dickens publish it in 1837. his picture of life in the urban ghetto be something shocking and new and and his make the central figure of the novel include criminal be another innovation . one day he be walk in london and pass a young woman he have be friendly with . he say hello and but she be rather stiff with him . he could not understand this . a few day later they meet again and and he ask what he have do to upset her . well and if you must know and i do not like your last novel . and she say . really and everyone else think highly of it . he be puzzle represent what wrong with it . oh and charles and she say and i be jewish . how could you make up such a character like fagin . he have not expect this represent well . you know that trial last year of ikey solomon and the thief trainer . he a model for fagin and he be jewish . dickens find that do not settle thing . yes and she reply and he get what he deserve . but charles and they do not call him solomon the jew like you call fagin the jew . moreover and solomon do not plan a murder . fagin do . dickens have to admit that he might have get carry away . he leave think about what she say . oliver twist be publish in several edition . dickens try to improve on fagin a bit . then he get an idea . he rework the chapter call fagin last night alive and show the fear in the man a he face hang . he also add some additional detail . he let his female friend know about his resolve to change fagin . a day or so later he meet her at a friend house . she look at him a though he be crazy . didn not you like the change . and he ask . charles and what change he still a vile villain call the jew . and she reply . yes and i do keep those in and but do not you see how frighten he be in the death cell in prison . the young woman have notice this and but felt that he be so vile he deserve to be suffer such fear . ah . then i be right about that . and do you see the little detail i add . and he ask . what detail . and she reply . when you first see fagin now he be cook himself dinner . you read that . and dickens look at her expect a sign of recognition . instead the lady look confused . i read he be at the fireplace and but i must have skim the passage . dickens smile a though he be brilliant and he be cook a pork sausage for his dinner . a what . she exclaim . he eat pork and my dear . see he not a good jew . his friend look at him and shake her head and and to his dismay leave their friend house . she do not speak to him for year . dickens never totally shake off his own bigotry and but the situation do lead to a partial attempt at amends in his last complete novel . in our mutual friend ( 1865 ) he have a minor character and mr. riah and who be use by an unscrupulous landlord to collect high rent from poor tenant . the landlord figure that mr. riah will be blame because he be jewish . but mr. riah be a good man . he be a very good man . he be a very and very and very and very good man so good a to be unbelievable . if fagin saw mr. riah in action he would probably chase him away with a stick . the anti semitic image of fagin lingers to this day . it be a measure of dickens genius a a writer that the novel overcome it . however and in present the story on film it still cause problem for screenplay writer and director represent how and after the holocaust and can one do a film treatment of a worthy novel without inflame bigotry . david lean show how by have alec guiness appear in one or two scene show a human side and in confront a mob at the end with true dignity . sir carol reed and in his musical version of the novel do it good yet and due to a rewrite in the original musical script . oliver have be make into a west end musical hit in the middle 1960s and and then take to broadway where it be again a hit . with a wonderful score by lionel bart and include food glorious food and i be review the situation and consider yourself and boy for sale and who will buy and as long a he need me and it deserve it success . reed do well in his cast the role and include his nephew oliver reed a sykes and ron moody a fagin and mark lester a oliver and jack wild a the dodger and shani wallis a nancy and and harry secombe a mr. bumble . there have be no big musical success in hollywood for a decade the last musical to win the best picture oscar have be gigi in 1958. oliver win it in 1968. and fagin how to handle the eternal problem of the caricature . well in the musical fagin be not capture and try and execute for the murder that be commit . after all and even lean show fagin try to control his confederate in his action . but here fagin realizes that he be get too old to depend on this kind of chancy life . although he lose his treasure ( those steal item he keep because he know their value and and admire their beauty ) and he decide he can reform . he be allow to do so and accompany by his faithful acolyte and the artful dodger . i do not think dickens would have appreciate the change ( his female friend might have ) and but a modern audience certainly accept it a fitting .