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- With Carton and Barsad in the other room, Mr. Lorry expresses his outrage at Jerry's grave robbing activities and tells Jerry that he will be fired from Tellson's.
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Summary. With Carton and Barsad in the other room, Mr. Lorry expresses his outrage at Jerry's grave robbing activities and tells Jerry that he will be fired from Tellson's. Never quite admitting his wrongdoing, Jerry asks Mr. Lorry to let his son take his place at Tellson's and tells him that he will become a regular gravedigger to make up for ...
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Lucie comforts him, and that night Mr. Lorry and Lucie take...
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Mr. Jarvis Lorry An English banker. A loyal friend to the...
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Lorry, who is a privileged and prosperous member of the middle class, greatly disapproves of Cruncher’s grave-robbing without considering how his own prosperity might impose such a profession...
Cruncher hints that there may be many doctors involved in grave-robbing who bank at Tellson’s. Cruncher then makes amends, saying that if Lorry will let young Jerry Cruncher inherit his own duties at the bank, he himself will become a gravedigger to make up for all the graves that he has “un-dug.”
He inadvertently reveals his identity as a “resurrection man” when confronting John Barsad about Roger Cly’s fake death, and in response to Mr. Lorry’s disapproval, vows to become a real grave digger to make amends.
Mr. Jarvis Lorry is appalled that Jerry Cruncher has been body snatching illegally on the side, and threatens to report Jerry when they get back to England. But Jerry defends himself. First, they've worked together many years.
He accuses Lorry of having an “unlawful occupation of an infamous description” (Book 3, Ch 9, enotes etext p.196). Lorry is annoyed when he finds out that Jerry Cruncher works as a grave robber.
By night, a "resurrection man"—robbing graves to sell body parts to sketchy doctors. He complains about his wife's praying because it makes him feel guilty about his secret activities, but by the end of the novel he decides to give up his secret job and endorses praying, a sign that he hopes to be resurrected himself through the power of Christ.
