Charles and Lucie gain the greatest pleasure in their family and close friends. This small community huddles against the coming shadows in their home off of Soho, in which Doctor Manette, Mr. Lorry, Miss Pross, Sydney Carton, and even Jerry Cruncher play crucial roles in each other’s lives. The coming of their first-born child, little Lucie, gives them great joy, seeing the sweetness that has been denied them in their own childhoods. Even the death of a son cannot not fully dim their happiness, believing that he has gone to a better place of peace, perhaps referring to the idea that this world is nothing more than a “vale of tears” that must be overcome. Their close-knit group seems to have shut themselves off from the outside world that has treated them so cruelly. Nevertheless, the outside world breaks through, claiming their attention and their joy, in which not all of them will return. This thus becomes a major theme of the novel: family.
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