Mary Barton

by

Elizabeth Gaskell

Caricature

In Mary Barton, the caricature that mill owner’s son Harry Carson draws of starving workers’ representatives symbolizes employers’ lack of empathy toward their working-class employees—and vice versa. The caricature first appears in the novel…

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Wadded Shot

In Mary Barton, the wadded shot used in the gun that kills Harry Carson symbolizes Mary Barton’s confused loyalties to Harry, her father John Barton, and her true love Jem Wilson

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