Mr Bounderby

1) 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, through that brassy speaking-trumpet of a voice of his,

his old ignorance and his old poverty. A man who was the Bully of humility.

A year or two younger than his eminently practical friend, Mr. Bounderby looked older; his seven or eight and forty might have had the seven or eight added to it again, without surprising anybody. He had not much hair. One might have fancied he had talked it off; and that what was left, all standing up in disorder, was in that condition from being constantly blown about by his windy boastfulness.

2) “Or, if the reader should prefer it, so far off";

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

   "A man who was the Bully of humility";

   "On might have fancied he had talked it off".

3) "He had not much hair";

   "Pervading appearance";

   “Always proclaiming his old ignorance and his old poverty".

4) A bounder is a man who behaves badly or in a way that is not moral; the phrase "a man who was the Bully of Humility" reinforces the meaning of his surname.

5) Mr Bounderby is described as coming from a poor family without education and self-made and here they become negative features.

6) Yes, it is.

7) His windy boastfulness.

8) It confirm his portrait.

9) “I”, “inflammation”; his way of talking is repetitive and focused on himself.