Individualfrog’s Reviews > Bleak House > Status Update

I always suspect authors of bending their stories (from what they would 'organically' be like) to get the results they want, especially when they were serialized and feedback was coming in; and in this book, my paranoid suspicion is that Dickens put in Esther's mystery illness just to screw over Mr. Guppy in the readers' estimations.

It's interesting re-reading this; I have forgotten a lot of side things, but at the same time, some parts at least of a central mystery (of sorts) are so heavy-handedly alluded to that I am surprised to think anyone could possibly have missed it -- but I can't remember if I did or not, when I read it the first time... and I also wonder what can happen in the 500 pages left. Loving it.