vocab

• didactic

  to teach
• frugality

  stinginess
• avariciousness

  greed
• apathy

  lack of concern
• virulent

  harmful
• condemnation

  critisism
• mouthpiece

  cant be in the novel himself so speaks on his behalf, about his beliefs
• literat

  able to read and write - middle upper class
• repentance

  remorse
• introspect

  look in at themselves
• moral transgression

  go against morals
• regressed

  gone backwards
• proleptic

  flash forward
• omission

  removal
• microcosm

  something small representing something larger
• pious

  religious
• covetousness

  desire for wealth
• parsimonious

  stingy
• magnanimous

  kind
• transmogrifies

  changes in a surprising way
• kinship


  family connection
• magnanimity

  generous
• unscrupulous

  immoral
• precedence

  priority