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Michael Henchard possibly being the most mysterious character of the novel, “The Mayor of Casterbridge, has a complexity about him. In the beginning of the novel he is obviously an ungreatfull and ignorant young man as he believes that his wife will not actually leave him if he offers her for sale such as a horse would be. At this point in his life he is only the tender age of twenty-one which may account for his attitude toward his wife. For example, he says,
“Here-I am waiting to know about this of mine. The woman is no good to me who will have her?” After his wife is actually sold for only five guineas he awakens from a night of drinking which shows he’s a bit of a drunkard. It is the alcohol that released his fit of rage to get rid of his wife and child. But we as readers discover after this that he is a determined deeply sorrowed man. There is a passage in which Henchard thinks,
“Yet she knows I am not in my senses when I do that! Well, I must walk about till I find......

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