Vanity Fair, Chapter 17: riassunto

Cosa succede

1. The narrator describes auctions as occasions that expose loss, selfishness, and the collapse of former grandeur.
2. Rawdon and Rebecca buy an elephant portrait, but Dobbin outbids them for Amelia’s small piano.
3. The Sedleys shelter with their clerk after John Sedley’s bankruptcy, and the piano arrives there that evening.
4. Jos supplies money from a distance, while a gift of silver from grateful stockbrokers moves his father to tears.
5. Rebecca keeps Rawdon happy in their secluded marriage, while Miss Crawley rejects his approaches and creditors remain uninformed.
6. Leaving the auction, Rawdon suggests Osborne may abandon Amelia, and Rebecca dismisses the likely pain.

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