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GGrimaldi . - 5 A - The Victorian Novel and Utilitarianism . - Mr. Bounderby
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1) - A man perfectly devoid of sentiment

     - He was a rich man

     - A big, loud man, with a stare, and a metallic laugh

     - A man made out of a coarse material, which seemed to have been

        stretched to make so much of him

     - A man with a great puffed head and forehead, swelled

        veins in his temples, and such a strained skin to his face that it seemed to hold his

        eyes open, and lift his eyebrows up

     - A man with a pervading appearance on him of being inflated like a

       balloon, and ready to start 

     - A man who could never sufficiently vaunt himself a self-made man

     - A man who was always proclaiming his old ignorance and his old poverty

     - Mr. Bounderby looked older

     - He had not much hair

2)  -  Devoid of sentiment = heartless, insensitive

     - A big, loud man, with a stare, and a metallic laugh = a man who acts mechanically

     - Puffed head = overconfident

3)  - A man perfectly devoid of sentiment

     - A big, loud man, with a stare, and a metallic laugh

     - A man with a great puffed head and forehead, swelled

       veins in his temples, and such a strained skin to his face that it seemed to hold his

       eyes open, and lift his eyebrows up

     - A man who was always proclaiming his old ignorance and his old poverty

     - A man who was the Bully of humility

4) Bounder= a man who behaves badly and cannot be trusted.

   - As a man perfectly devoid of sentiment can approach that spiritual relationship towards

     another man perfectly devoid of sentiment

   - He was a rich man: banker, merchant, manufacturer, and what not

   - A man made out of a coarse material, which seemed to have been stretched to make

     so much of him

   - A man with a pervading appearance on him of being inflated like a balloon, and ready

     to start.

   - A man who was always proclaiming, through that brassy speaking-trumpet of a voice of

     his, his old  and ignorance and his old poverty

   - A man who was the Bully of humility

   - Was in that condition from being constantly blown about by his windy boastfulness

5) Generally in other contexts these attributes are signs of admiration, but not in this case. In fact   Dickens uses irony to represent the character of Mr. Bounderby to make the reader understand   what kind of person is really.

6) What Mr. Bounderby said during the conversation, fully reflects the description given previously by the narrator: he reproaches him several times to have humble origins, that the conditions in which he lived would have been unbearable for anyone, but not for him, and if now is a man made​​, it is only thanks to him.

7) When Mr. Bounderby speaks are emphasized the conditions on the limit of suffering to which he was forced to live.

8) What he says confirm his portrait.

9a) – Ditch…ditch…ditch

    - I was born…I was born

    - Inflammation…inflammation

    - I was….I was…I was…I was

    - Determined…determined

    - I suppose…I suppose

9b) This way of speaking is a way to emphasize what he is saying.

9c) the way of talking of Mr. Bounderby, fully reflects his personality, described by the narrator: egocentric, self-assured and insensitive.