An Opportunity to Come out Strong or Never

The novel Martin Chuzzlewit, written by Charles Dickens, is one of his least successful works, though Dickens himself commented to a friend that he believed it was his greatest work up to its publication in 1843. There is a scene however, that succinctly captures a dynamic of the human condition. In Martin Chuzzlewit, the titular character invests all of his savings in a fifty-acre parcel of land in America,…