the gutter as it helps to boost his ego and make him stand out from other business colleagues. However he is not telling the truth, far from it, when his mother turns up on the doorstep, she humiliates him quite unintentionally. In fact she really cares for her son as she quotes Lord forgive you, sir, for your wicked imaginations after Mr. Gradgrind, curses her saying she deserted Josiah in his infancy. Mr. Bounderby is a bad person thinking about himself and himself only at all times, doing things for only his own personal gain. Sissy who was actually was abandoned by her parents, is the opposite of Bounderby, she is a good person with a good view of life, she is a well rounded person, knowing that life shouldn't be based on money and that people have feelings.Tom appears to be a clever schemer and frames Stephen Blackpool in secrecy. However, Tom in fact is very weak and feeble, and it is not very hard to bring out his weaknesses. Tom as a result from his upbringing would never do anything for other people unless there was something in it for him. When Stephen decides to leave Coketown, Tom uses it to his advantage. He tells Stephen that he might help him, but he will have to wait outside the bank on three consecutive nights making sure he was seen. After these three nights have passed nothing happened. Later on in the book we learn that the Bank is robbed and it looks like Stephen robbed the bank as all the facts point to him. But in fact it was Tom who carried it out as a probable result of his gambling debts.Tom has been brought up to be a mercenary with regards to other people in higher places. Because of this attitude Tom goes to great lengths to impress or make happy people in higher places than himself therefore improving his place in society. Because of his education he received he goes to any extents to get money, with no regards to other peoples feelings an example of this is when he set Stephen Blackpool up, w...
