Blog #6 Quarter 2

In the next few chapters of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Mr. Norrell gets more used to London society and goes to much more social gatherings with his new friend, Mr. Drawlight. We also find out much more about Mr. Drawlight in this chapter, he is a very sociable man and very optimistic, but nevertheless he is also very poor and it says in the book that “Even his friends can find no good qualities in him.” However Mr. Norrell takes a liking to him and Mr. Drawlight takes him to all of the social gathering so he is busy every day, but at these gathering people are starting to tire of Mr. Norrell and wish he would actually DO some magic, not just claim to be able to do it. We also meet Mr. Drawlight’s good friend, Mr. Lascelles who is a nonbeliever of Mr. Norrell’s skills and takes to asking him questions just to find amusement in Mr. Norrell’s answers. We also later learn that Mr. Norrell wishes to help the government in the war against the French, so he goes to talk to Mr. Walter Pole, the Minister.

We also see the first mention of Jonathan Strange in the book in a footnote at the bottom; he is referred to as Mr. Norrell’s pupil. However, I think that it will be a while until we hear of him mentioned again because as you may have been able to guess this is a very slow moving book. I also think that even though Mr. Norrell is starting to become more acclimated to the London social scene, he still doesn’t understand it any more than he did before and I don’t really think that he ever will because he is just so different than the people like Mr. Drawlight and Mr. Lascelles.