Tale Of Two Cities: The Wine Shop Chapter - Element Of Secrecy

Part I of Essay
The Wine Shop chapter suggests an element of secrecy. This is seen when three men in the tavern are named Jaque, the existence of a remote attic to hide Mr. Monette, and third, Mme. Defarge's behavior. The men all sharing the same name certainly appears odd. Because it is ....

Part II of Essay
.... are strangers in the taver, Mme. Defarge warns her husband with gentle coughs and raises her eyebrows to get his attention. Mme. Defarge said nothing...but coughed just one grain of cough. This, in combination with lifting her darkly defined eyebrows suggesting to her husband that it would do him well to look around the shop.(pg. 28). The reader, at this point, becomes aware of the same secrecy between the Defarges but is unsure why. Charles Dickens certainly used the wine shop to install an element of secrecy in the novel. He shows that cer ....