Oliver Twist, Chapter 39 summary
Chapter 39 of 53 · 21 min to read the chapter
In Chapter 39, Nancy secretly listens to Monks and Fagin upstairs, returns to the sick and violent Sikes, and becomes determined to take a dangerous step. After laudanum sends Sikes into deep sleep, she reaches Miss Maylie’s hotel and overcomes the servants’ resistance to secure admission.
What happens
- Sikes strikes the exhausted Nancy, who faints before Fagin and the boys arrive with food and drink.
- Sikes demands money, and Nancy accompanies Fagin home to collect the negotiated sum.
- Monks arrives, and Nancy secretly follows him and Fagin upstairs before returning visibly shaken.
- The next evening, Nancy gives Sikes his medicine and leaves once the laudanum puts him into deep sleep.
- Nancy races to a hotel near Hyde Park, where servants initially refuse her request to see Miss Maylie.
- A cook supports Nancy’s appeal, and a waiter takes her message upstairs before admitting her to an antechamber.
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What to notice
Sikes’s deep sleep gives Nancy the opportunity to leave. Her urgent departure turns her private agitation into action.
Quick check
Who helps persuade the hotel waiter to deliver Nancy’s message?
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