Mr Lorry Quotes

Double Sided Persona Media makes celebrities seem as if they live life facing no problems or hardships. In reality, they do not live a perfect life, but that characteristic of celebrities' life tends to go unseen. In Charles Dickens’s, A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens develops Mr. Lorry into a character where business engulfes his life. Mr. Lorry continually tries to suppress his emotions using many different strategies. Even though business is always Mr. Lorry’s top priority, he always has a special place in his heart for the people he cares about, the Manette’s. Through the use of characterization and dialogue, Charles Dickens uses Mr. Lorry to promote how humanity overrides one’s business side no matter how hard they try to suppress it. First

Throughout the novel, Dickens repeats the symbol of business multiple times. Dickens is able to create a business symbol because "Dickens manipulates both emotional conflict and its solution by 'splitting' in the technical, psychoanalytic sense: his characters distance their emotions from an immediate, and disturbing, reality" (Hutter 51). In business interactions, Mr. Lorry acts very machine-like and focuses only on business, and therefore does distance himself from emotion. He tries to keep interactions only business related, further proving that Lorry forces his emotions down to create an image of business. Additionally, Mr. Lorry continually reinstates that he is a man of business in the first interaction with Lucie. Then, he goes on to tell Lucie, "These are mere business relations, miss; there is no friendship in them, no particular interest, nothing like sentiment" (Dickens 23). The diction “no friendship” shows that he does not care to become friends or be nice to his clients when in actuality he does. Mr. Lorry has the urge to reinstate to his clients that interactions between them are “business relations”, but later on he creates a family-like bond with the Manettes. The bond shows that Mr. Lorry was unsuccessful in being fully forcing himself to be emotionless. Mr. Lorry realizes that being emotionless has also cut him off from his social side of life while in Paris. Mr. Carton and Mr. Lorry were having a heartfelt conversation about the accomplishments of Mr. Lorry in his lifetime, and Mr. Lorry can not remember a time when business was not a part of his life. Mr. Lorry told Mr. Carton, "I have been a man of business, ever since I have been a man. Indeed, I may say that I was a man of business when a boy" (Dickens 315). Business centers around Mr. Lorry's whole life because that is all he has ever known. It causes