Around the World in Eighty Days, Chapter 27 summary
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In Chapter 27, Passepartout attends Elder William Hitch’s lecture on Mormon history but refuses his invitation to join the community, while the train carries the travelers toward Utah’s settlements. A visit to Salt Lake City sharpens his concern about plural marriage, before a fleeing passenger complains about having just one wife.
What happens
- Passepartout notices an advertisement for Elder William Hitch’s lecture and joins about thirty passengers in a railway car.
- Hitch recounts Mormon origins, Joseph Smith’s career and death, and Brigham Young’s settlement near the Great Salt Lake.
- The audience gradually leaves, and Passepartout rejects Hitch’s invitation before leaving him alone.
- The train reaches Ogden, and Mr. Fogg’s party takes a branch line to visit Salt Lake City.
- The women Passepartout sees prompt him to imagine the burdens of having several wives.
- A man catches the departing train after a domestic dispute and tells Passepartout that one wife is enough.
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The passenger overturns Passepartout’s assumption that his domestic trouble involves numerous wives. His answer gives the chapter’s repeated concern with marriage a comic ending.
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