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>> share an apartment as they can't afford to live solo There was also at the time a general disdain for living solo. A person living on their own was almost
by sandworm101 4y ago
>> share an apartment as they can't afford to live solo
There was also at the time a general disdain for living solo. A person living on their own was almost seen to be hiding something. Their daily activity would be totally unchecked.
The protestant ethic also saw it wasteful for one person to occupy an entire dwelling on their own. Think of all the scrooge-like literary characters who lived alone.
- sorokod 4y agoNot an expert on late 19 century England but this is not the way the story goes: ... He was bemoaning himself this morning because he could not get someone to go halves with him in some nice rooms which he had found, and which were too much for his purse.” “By Jove!” I cried, “if he really wants someone to share the rooms and the expense, I am the very man for him. I should prefer having a partner to being alone.
- sandworm101 4y agoNote: story. "I should prefer having a partner to being alone." The character is reassuring the reader that he isn't the sort of oddball loner who might actually want to live alone. They may have expenses, but they both feel a societal need not to be that strange man living alone in an empty apartment.
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