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• W2192576440 abstract "What good is telling a lie if everyone knows it's a lie? In Dickens's last completed novel, Our Mutual Friend, Lady Tippins sits at Veneerings' dinner table extolling ruggedness and lamenting treachery of her numerous lovers. Everyone at table knows, however, that Tippins is blatantly lying: in fact, washed-up widow with no fortune or real connections has no admirers at all. (1) Our narrator makes clear that while romantic tales of old woman with drab, oblong, obtuse face, like a face in a tablespoon may be elaborate, they are also transparently false: A grisly little fiction concerning her lovers is Tippins's point. She keeps a little list of her lovers, and she is always booking a new lover, or striking out an old lover, or putting a lover her black list, or promoting a lover to her blue list, or adding up her lovers, or otherwise posting her book. Mrs. Veneering is charmed by humour, and so is Veneering. (54) Charming as they may appear, Tippins's lies are indeed grisly, for they attempt to hide a painful and unattractive social reality: unalterable loneliness and misfit position of an aging widow without family or money or beauty. By feigning to return attentions of innumerable attendees on condition that they are very obedient and devoted (54), Tippins reiterates these lies in order to convince herself and others that her life is not as barren, without promise, and socially ineffable as it actually is. Indeed, great bustle accompanying her speech acts--booking, striking out, promoting, adding up, posting--ensures that she has something to do beyond tedium of a dowager's lonely life. Similarly, little Jenny Wren, with her back and queer legs, promotes obvious fiction that her lumbering, drunken father is her bad child. This lie permits Jenny, who is barely a teenager herself, (2) to control purse strings and to become not angel but, as she herself proclaims, the person of house (271), and thereby demand obedience from her cowering father. She announces this inverted relationship to anyone who sees them together, momentarily confusing first-time listeners of her fiction. And yet, both Lady Tippins and Jenny Wren succeed in convincing characters of various ages, classes, and backgrounds not only to refrain from exposing their statements as lies but also to act as if they were true. They solicit complicity in their lying and turn other characters into conspirators in perpetuating obvious falsehoods. In fact, Our Mutual Friend is a novel that runs deception and concealment. Some are benevolent deceptions, like grand pious fraud (841) that Harmon and Boffins execute to teach Bella Wilfer about her true generous nature. Most, however, are nefarious and dangerous deceptions: Lammles sham each other into a bankrupt union and then seek to ensnare rich young girls into marriages for which Lammles plan to receive commissions; Fascination Fledgeby lies about his ownership of Pubsey & Co. in order to discretely identify most vulnerable debts to buy up and foreclose on; and Silas Wegg ingratiates himself into Boffin's Bower for purpose of finding some way to extort or steal from him. Among these various schemers, Tippins and Jenny stand out because their lies are utterly transparent. They are an unlikely pairing, too, for while Jenny is often ultimately regarded as a sympathetic and protective friend to Lizzie and Riah, Tippins is routinely dismissed as a flat and comedic side note who represents thoughtless judgments of a vacuous upper class. (3) A closer examination of how their distinctive lies operate, and cultural appeals that persuade other characters to play along with them, reveals not only familiar Victorian anxieties over fluidity of character but also challenges to values and social structures that Victorians had come to rely as foundations for building and ordering their communities. …" @default.
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