![]() ![]() ![]() He admits that roast beef is good, although it vanishes like all pleasures of Vanity Fair. Thackeray wishes to impress on the reader the futility of Vanity Fair but he does not underestimate its values either. Any conflict with nature is conflict with human nature. He watches what they do, he hears what the author tells about them, and then with some direct prompting from the author, judges them. The reader does not often enter the minds of the characters. The conflict is always man against man for the joys and advantages of Vanity Fair. This continuous focus on human nature in all aspects from motherhood to death, from poverty to prosperity, makes the plot both probable and unified. No matter how minor a character, Thackeray identifies that person - perhaps by the significance of his name only - as living or not living in Vanity Fair. Whereas the tale seems disjointed and diverse, it is held together by the one theme: the foibles and deceptions of the inhabitants of Vanity Fair. The story, however, is as modern as tomorrow - the struggle to establish oneself in society. Moreover, the author digresses so often in essays on related subjects that the casual reader may lose the thread of the story. The plot appears complex because of the multitude of characters and because the stated motives are seldom the true ones. ![]()
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