The Mayor of Casterbridge
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Plot Summary of The Mayor of Casterbridge

"Thomas Hardy's Wessex is a very interesting place, often colourful, sometimes gloomy. In this novel Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter at a country fair. He was drunk at the time and when he sobers up realises what he has done and swears he will not take another drink for 21 years. When the sailor who bought Susan is presumed dead nineteen years later she searches for her legal husband and finds he is the Mayor of the small rural town of Casterbridge. The couple remarry as if the previous marriage never existed. Susan dies and there are complications involving another woman who Henchard promised to marry. Elizabeth-Jane, Henchard's nineteen year-old daughter, falls in love with his manager who marries the woman Henchard intends to marry.

Crested sapwood supportable noradrenaline runout.

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Penny , Resident Scholar

Review Analysis of The Mayor of Casterbridge

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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Time/era of story - 19th century
Romance/Romance Problems Yes
Kind of romance: - rekindling lost love/marriage
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book

Main Character
Gender - Male
Profession/status: - small businessman
Age: - 40's-50's
Ethnicity/Nationality - British

Main Adversary
Identity: - society

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 5 (an average amount)
Europe Yes
European country: - England/UK

Style
Person - mostly 3rd
Unusual Style: - No single main character?
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog

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