Discussions and Questions with model answers on A Tale Of Two Cities

[Huda Mohammed 2010]

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Describe Tellson`s bank !!

In A Tale of Two Cities Dickens describes Tellson's Bank using the humor and satire. The Tellson's Bank, a type, which actually existed in 1780, is described by Dickens as "an old fashioned, small, dark and ugly place with musty odour"
All the people working there were too old. It is said that when young men are employed in the bank, they were "kept unseen like a cheese until they had the full Tellson's flavour and blue-mould upon them"


So the bank is compared to a prison with "bars to its windows"and its back rooms like a "condemned hole

This is the bank where Mr. Lorry worked, and where Dr. Manette put his money.

Also, it was where the French aristocrats stored their wealth before they ended up beheaded