Sympathy In The Verger

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Besides the moral lesson about never give up. “The Verger” also conveys the messages about the importance of the sympathy in our life through the two characters: the old vicar and the newly-appointed vicar. The old vicar is the person who has the most sympathetic character in the story. Although the old vicar appears just a little bit in the story through the memories of Albert Edward Foreman, we can see that he is the one who has a big-hearted heart. The old vicar is “liked things in church to be just so”. He does not to change anything in the church, even when he knows an unacceptable truth that the verger is unable to read and write. The old vicar still lets Albert Edward Foreman to work in the church because "He said it didn't make no difference.” He…show more content…
He has completely opposite character to the old vicar. He is a man “who wanted to have his finger in every pie”. To the new vicar illiteracy is unaccepted: “It's the most amazing thing I ever heard” and “at a church like St. Peter’s Neville Square, we cannot have a verger who can neither read nor write”. In this plot we can see the completely opposite character of the new vicar and the old vicar. The newly-appointed vicar does not use sympathy and open-mindedness to exam the situation. Despite the fact that Albert Edward is a successful person in the positions he has fill in sixteen years; the new vicar still wants to dismiss him. “I am too old a dog to learn new tricks”. Even though the verger says he is too old to learn, the newly-appointed vicar still forces him to learn how to read and write and if at the end of that time he cannot do it, he must leave the church. The new vicar does not have enough sympathy for Foreman. He does not care about the emotion and difficult situation of Foreman. “He had saved a tidy sum, but not enough to live on without doing something, and life seemed to cost more every year”, “He did not know what he should do with

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