This new adaptation by the gifted novelist David Lodge wisely glosses rapidly over the American section to focus on the monumentally hypocritical Seth Pecksniff ( Tom Wilkinson ), who, presumably by chance, bears an uncanny physical resemblance to a haughty art critic on the contemporary scene.
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Dickens was the foremost English-speaking master of onomastics, Kaplan and Ms . Bernays say, with characters like Seth Pecksniff, Sairey Gamp, Wilkins Micawber, Sir Mulberry Hawk, Ned and Charles Cheeryble, Thomas Gradgrind and Joseph Bounderby _ all amalgams of sound, emotion and association.
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:: : : : Charles Dickens used the expression in : " " " It would be no description of Mr Pecksniff's gentleness of manner to adopt the common parlance, and say that he looked at this moment as if butter wouldn't melt in his mouth.
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He then abruptly declares to Pecksniff that he wants to marry Merry, and jilts Cherry-not without demanding an additional 1, 000 pounds on top of the 4, 000 that Pecksniff had promised him as Cherry's dowry, with the argument that Cherry has better chances for matchmaking.
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He then abruptly declares to Pecksniff that he wants to marry Merry, and jilts Cherry-not without demanding an additional 1, 000 pounds on top of the 4, 000 that Pecksniff had promised him as Cherry's dowry, with the argument that Cherry has better chances for matchmaking.
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Jonas Chuzzlewit, son of old Martin's estranged brother Anthony, marries Mercy Pecksniff ( despite being twice her age and having previously shown more interest in Charity ), mistreats her, but also finds himself drawn into a fraudulent insurance scheme masterminded by Tigg Montague, and concocts a murderous plot in order to extricate himself from this.
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In Djuna Barnes's " Ladies Almanack " ( 1928 ), a " roman ?clef " of Natalie Barney's circle in Paris, she makes a brief appearance as Cynic Sal, who " dresse [ s ] like a coachman of the period of Pecksniff " & mdash; a reference to the style of dress seen in her 1923 self-portrait.
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Between the turn of the century and the First World War, Volpe's roles included Pecksniff in " Tom Pinch ", based on " Martin Chuzzlewit " ( 1903 ), Lord Amersteth in a play based on the " Vice Versa ", and Alexis in " The Girl in the Taxi " ( 1913 ) . and Sir Joshua Grimshaw in " The Truth Game " in a starry cast including Lily Elsie, Ivor Novello, Lilian Braithwaite, Viola Tree and Glen Byam Shaw ( 1928 ).
