Character names...
Jun. 8th, 2007 02:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennythereaderI'm listening to Oliver Twist at work today, and noticed something about the name of one of the secondary characters.
It's one of the young thieves, a boy named Charlie Bates. Combine that name with Dickens's habit of referring to his male characters as "Master Last-name," and you get a very unfortunate result.
I don't know if I would have noticed if I were reading the book instead of listening to it.
It's one of the young thieves, a boy named Charlie Bates. Combine that name with Dickens's habit of referring to his male characters as "Master Last-name," and you get a very unfortunate result.
I don't know if I would have noticed if I were reading the book instead of listening to it.
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