“‘I think you have been drinking Mr Carton.’ ‘Think? You know I have been drinking. … I am a disappointed drudge, sir. I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me.’ … He resorted to his pint of wine for consolation, drank it all in a few minutes, and fell asleep on his arms, with his hair straggling over the table, and a long winding-sheet in the candle dripping down upon him.” (88-89)
At the end of chapter 4, Mr. Darnay and Mr. Carton go off to a tavern to have a drink and some food. At the end of their conversation, Mr. Carton asks Mr. Darnay if he thinks he (Carton) is drunk. Darnay says that he has been drinking, and then Carton says that he is cared for by no one and in turn cares for no one. At the very end, Carton falls asleep on the table. This passage shows the negative effects of wine. Despite their extremely similar physical appearance, the two men are completely different; Darnay is everything Carton could and should have been. Carton, who once had a promising future, resorted to alcohol to solve his problems. Now while Darnay is a successful businessman, Carton is asleep on the table.
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Is this the complete post? It looks like some of it may have gotten lost ...
A quick request: Could someone from 8th period please go under "settings" and grant the period 9 students "administrative privileges"? Thanks!
Yeah that's the whole post.
I just added in the quote, if that's what you were talking about. Guess I should have included that to start.
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