Book 3, Chapter 3: The Shadow

1. Book 3, Chapter 3: The Shadow “The shadow” represents the Defarges and the darkness they bring that seems to follow them around wherever they go.

2. Plot Summary • Mr. Lorry was worried about the state of the bank, so he thought about going to see Defargesince he lived in the most violent quarter of the city. • Since Darnay hadn’t returned yet, Mr. Lorry worked out a plan with Lucie. • Lucie tells Mr. Lorry of her father’s idea of staying in an apartment for a short period of time near the bank. Mr. Lorry gets an apartment and takes Lucie, Miss Pross, and Lucie’s child to it and left Jerry with them to guard the door. • Mr. Lorry then returns to work. At the end of the day, a man shows up claiming he was sent by Dr. Manettewith a note written within the past hour that says Darnay is safe but Manette cannot leave safely yet. He has convinced them to let Darnay write a note to Lucie and to let Defarge see Lucie. • Mr. Lorry agrees and they go out into the courtyard where they find Madame Defarge and the woman they call “The Vengeance.” They group goes up to the apartment Lucie is in and Jerry lets them in to find Lucie crying alone. • Lucie is very happy about the note from Darnay. • Lucie kisses Madame Defarge’s hand out of thanks and gratefulness but Madame Defarge drops it coldly and keeps knitting. • Madame Defarge’s coldness terrifies Lucie. It turns out that Madame Defarge wants to be able to travel with Mr. Lorry and Lucie.

3. Plot Summary (cont) • Mr. Lorry tells Lucie to leave her child and Miss Pross at the apartment since Miss Pross doesn’t know any French. • Seemingly randomly, Madame Defarge stops her knitting for the first time and asks if the child is belonging to Darnay, which she is his only child. • Lucie feels as thought Madame Defarge is threatening her child and holds her as the Defarge’s shadows surround them. • Madame Defarge tells her husband that it is time to go but Lucie still feels concern. She begs them not to hurt Darnay for the sake of their child. They all believe Lucie’s father has enough influence to get Darnayfreed.MadameDefarge responds that the revoltuon will stop for no one. • The “shadow” the Defarges had thrown over them concerned Mr. Lorry and Lucie as the Defarges leave.

4. Literary Devices • Irony: This situation is ironic because she is gripping Defarge’s hand in excitement of Darnay being alive but she doesn’t realize he could have been the one to kill Darnayand other prisoners. “She was thrown into a transport by the tidings Mr. Lorry gave her of her husband, and clasped the hand that delivered his note—little thinking what it had been doing near him in the night, and might, but for a chance, have done to him.” pg 271. • Imagery: This quote is describing Defargeas Mr. Lorry sees him when he shows up at the bank. “He was a strongly made man with dark curling hair, from forty-five to fifty years of age.” pg 270 • Anaphora: The first phrase of each sentence is repeated to express the paralellism of the shadows falling on first just the child, and then Lucie as well. “The shadow attendant on Madame Defarge and her party seemed to fall so threatening and dark on the child, that her mother instinctively kneeled on the ground beside her, and held her to her breast. The shadow attendant on Madame Defarge and her party seemed then to fall, threatening and dark, on both the mother and the child.”pg. 272

5. Essential Quote • “The wives and mothers we have been used to see, since we were as little as this child, and much less, have not been greatly considered? We have known THEIR husbands and fathers laid in prison and kept from them, often enough? All our lives, we have seen our sister-women suffer, in themselves and in their children, poverty, nakedness, hunger, thirst, sickness, misery, oppression and neglect of all kinds?” Pg 273