stranger for him, just because he wanted to get poor David out of his life. Would an unselfish step-father do that? The initial title also says that: 'the final impression is one of joy tempered and mellowed with wisdom.' This is very true and it is what has given this book the success that it has: when we begin to read David Copperfield we start to feel as if the bad luck is all happening to him, his mother re-marries a cruel man, he goes to an awful school, his mother, he has to work unfairly ect... Steerforth's servant Littimer once calls David 'young innocence' (chapter 32). This name is appropriate. David is sensitive, honest and loving as a child, and remains so all his life. He is intelligent and observant, but he learns the harder facts of life very slowly. That is why we can say all those describing terms about this novel are correct and that is why we can say it ends marvellously with great expected achievment from david. In fact, also because it was written as a series rather than a novel, Dickens manages to settle everything left hanging between characters, in the last chapter. So in conclusion I can say that I profoundly agree with the initial statement because it properly describes this masterpiece of life....
