Chapter 1
This word in the title of Book Two symbolizes the consequences of earlier actions.
What is Reaping?
This new character comes to Coketown and becomes interested in Louisa.
Who is James (Jem) Harthouse?
This character unintentionally tells Harthouse that Louisa never loved her husband.
Who is Tom Gradgrind?
This labor leader convinces the workers to reject Stephen.
Who is Slackbridge?
Stephen tells Bounderby that workers have these and are not merely machines.
What are souls?
This is the monetarily focused sibling of Louisa Gradgrind
Who is Tom Gradgrind?
Bounderby takes Harthouse to this place to meet Louisa.
What is Bounderby's house?
Tom reveals that he persuaded Louisa to marry this man.
Who is Bounderby?
Stephen refuses to join this organization.
What is the worker's union?
Bounderby dismisses Stephen from this place.
What is the factory or mill?
This former model student of Gradgrind's school is now a cold and selfish employee at the bank.
Who is Bitzer?
Harthouse finds this quality in Louisa especially fascinating.
What is a lack of emotion?
Harthouse encourages Tom to talk freely by providing these two luxuries.
What is a pipe and alcohol?
Because Stephen refuses to join the organization, the workers do this to him.
What is to shun or ostracize him?
This character is deeply affected by Stephen's defense of the workers during his meeting with Bounderby.
Who is Louisa?
Dickens says even this industrial town occasionally experiences sunshine.
What is Coketown?
Harthouse gives Tom this insulting nickname.
What is "the whelp"?
Tom's willingness to reveal his sister's private life highlights this major weakness in his character.
What is disloyalty?
At the end of the chapter, this bank employee summons Stephen to see Bounderby.
Who is Bitzer?
Although Stephen refuses to join the union, he still argues that what group deserves fairer treatment.
Who are the workers or "the hands"?
This woman now lives in an apartment above Bounderby's bank and helps watch over it.
Who is Mrs. Sparsit?
Dickens uses the empty appearance of Bounderby's house to symbolize this aspect of Louisa's marriage.
What is the lack of love?
Tom's conversation with Harthouse demonstrates this major flaw in his character.
What is selfishness, dishonesty, carelessness, or manipulation?
Dickens suggests that these leaders can sometimes be just as manipulative as factory owners.
Who are union leaders?
Bounderby refers to his workers using this dehumanizing phrase
What are "the pests of the earth"?