Lucie Manette And Miss Pettigrew In A Tale Of Two Cities

Often times love finds a way into a person’s life at a time when they least expect it. Lucie Manette in A Tale of Two Cities and Miss Pettigrew in Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day know exactly what that feels like. Both of these women found themselves thrown into a situation they never thought they would be in and ended up falling in love in the process. While there may be many conditions that would need to fall into place to make the timing right, the urban setting and the unexpectedness of their individual situations are the biggest commonality between the two women falling in love. The opportunity for social interactions that is provided in the city enables Lucie and Miss Pettigrew to find love unexpectedly. A big city can be the perfect place to find love, whether you are looking for love or not. The diversity the people can …show more content…
That man is put on trial and Lucie is asked to testify. Lucie, first, never thought her father would be alive and able to come back to London with her, and she never expected she would have to testify in a trial. At the trial while testifying against her future husband, Lucie says “The prisoner was as open in his confidence with me – which arose out of my helpless situation – as he was kind, and good, and useful to my father. I hope I may not repay him by doing him harm to-day” (Dickens 74). Her use of the word helpless shows that she did not know what to do, because she was not expecting to ever have to be rescuing her father. This shows that she was, in fact, thrown into this unexpected situation. The fact that both of these women were thrown into situations that they never thought they would find themselves in made them vulnerable to feeling a wide variety of emotions, and more accepting to changes in their lives that may follow these unexpected