Martin Chuzzlewit sweet and good, like her brother. At first she works as a governess to a wealthy family with several nasty brats. Later in the novel she and Tom set up housekeeping together. She falls in love with, and marries, Tom's friend John Westlock. Mark Tapley, the good-humoured employee of the Blue Dragon Inn and suitor of Mrs Lupin (the Dragon's owner), leaves that establishment to find work that's more of a credit to his character: that is, work sufficiently miserable that his cheerfulness will be more of a credit to him. He eventually joins Young Martin Chuzzlewit on his trip
Dickens in America thinks the architecture is Fascist. There is security everywhere. There is a high level of fear. It is almost as if there is a Fear Industry. Fear is now part of the political process. She then tours the grand Library of Congress which has an exhibition of “ Treasures of America at the Library.” In the exhibit are Dickens’s walking stick (from his second American tour), a cutlery set he owned, and part of Martin Chuzzlewit. It takes Miriam three hours to travel by train to Richmond, Virginia. She meets a Dickens fan on the train. Richmond is the real