Character Analysis: Bounderby

This is a character analysis of Bounderby in the book Hard Times by Charles Dickens.

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In Hard Times, Charles Dickens crafts Josiah Bounderby as one of the novel’s most vividly drawn figures, a blustering factory owner, banker, and self-proclaimed “self-made man.” Bounderby plays a central role in Dickens’s social critique, embodying the...