- Relationship
between Jenny Jones and tom Jones.
Jenny Jones (Mrs. Waters) is the student of Partridge
whom Allworthy banishes for being Tom's mother—at the end of the novel we learn
that Jenny is not Tom's mother. Jenny reappears as "Mrs. Waters" at
Upton, where Tom saves her from a robbery.
Because of the raunchiness of the
narrator's description—and because Tom and Mrs. Waters quickly fall into bed
together—we initially think that the sole reason this character makes it
into the novel is for a bit of light-hearted, sexy comic relief. The narrator
makes a joke out of her seduction of Tom, comparing it to siege warfare in Book 9, Chapter 5. And once Sophia finds out that Tom has been sleeping with
Mrs. Waters, her character appears to be a funny way for the narrator to drive
Tom and Sophia apart once again, therefore delaying the plot resolution even
further.
We're glad to hear that Jenny's future is pretty
secure by the end of Tom Jones. But we feel kind of sad that there seems
to be nothing for her to do with her education, as a working-class woman
in this particular time and place. There are no teaching positions or
university jobs for lower-class women in Jenny Jones's position.
Least part of Jenny's problem in settling down and
making a life for herself is that there isn't much of a market for her set of
skills. She doesn't fit in comfortably in the social world that Fielding
portrays in Tom Jones. Unlike Tom, who can move past his status as an
illegitimate child, Jenny's gender seems to be an obstacle to her livelihood
that she can't overcome.
* Setting- London, Upton hotel, Lady Bellastons
house.
Answer: Henry
Fielding presented the novel in three main sections with action taking place in
the first half of the eighteenth century.
The first section centers on life in the country at
the estates of Squire Allworthy and Squire Western in Somersetshire (Somerset
County) in southwestern England. In this section, the protagonist, Tom Jones,
grows from infant foundling into a teenager who falls in love with the
beautiful daughter of Squire Western.
The second part of the novel takes place along roads,
at inns, and in other locales between Somersetshire and London in the middle
and late 1740s, when the Jacobite rebellion was under way and English soldiers
were bracing for battles with their enemies (Jacobites), who were seeking to
restore the House of Stuart to the English throne. In this section, the
protagonist experiences many episodic adventures involving a diverse cast of
characters that include a woman in distress, soldiers on the march, gypsies,
untrustworthy lawyers, puppeteers, women admirers of the title character, and
an impoverished robber.
The
action in the third part takes place mainly in London, where the title
character searches for his beloved, fights a duel, has encounters with a
possessive seductress, goes to jail, gains his freedom, and reunites with his
beloved. This section ends when the principal characters return to
Somersetshire.
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