George Silverman’s Explanation by Charles Dickens. Short summary

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The main character is George Silverman, who is the narrator. The man shares with readers a description of his difficult childhood. During those years, he lived with his parents in the Preston area.

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The main character is George Silverman. On behalf of the latter the narrative is conducted. This representative of the stronger sex tells about his own difficult childhood.

At that difficult time, he had to live with his parents in one of Preston’s basements. As George himself admits, he was excessively timid at the time.

Mr. Silverman states that because of his poverty, his mother seemed to him at the time to be an ugly woman — the latter had a lean figure and a shrill voice. The man forever remembered her haggard and at the same time hungry look.

The father of the protagonist, weary from his unsuccessful attempts to rectify the terrible state of affairs, would sit on a stool for an extended period of time and stare into the empty hearth without saying a single word. Sometimes, according to George’s recollections, his mother grew weary of her husband’s behavior and pulled the stool from under him, sending the negligent spouse on a quest for money.