Martin Chuzzlewit — Chapter 3 : résumé

Ce qui se passe

1. An old traveler falls ill in his carriage, stops at the Blue Dragon, and refuses outside treatment while his young companion gives him medicine.
2. As he improves, Mary explains that they are unrelated, and Mrs. Lupin encounters his fierce distrust before he burns his writing.
3. Mr Pecksniff arrives, suspects Mary of scheming, and recognizes the sleeping traveler as Martin Chuzzlewit when he wakes.
4. Speaking privately, Martin describes wealth as a source of corruption and explains his financial arrangement with Mary.
5. Pecksniff insists that Martin must provide for his grandson, young Martin, then leaves.
6. Martin suspects a fresh conspiracy and identifies the burned paper as another destroyed will; the narrator questions his own selfishness.

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Les points à remarquer

Martin expresses his isolation and distrust. His complaint also gives the narrator grounds to question whether he recognizes his own self-interest.

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