Having judged from the very last word of Toby’s “opinion” – “wife” (332), Mrs. Shandy mistakenly assumes that she is the topic of the brothers’ communication, as Tristram asserts that such voyeuristic curiosity is the “weak part of the whole sex” (332). One may, at this point, judge that Tristram’s view toward female members (except that for his great aunt Dinah) is rather biased and judgmental compared to that for other male members of the family, as he in the first volume, as well claims that “the females [have] no character at all” (58). On the other hand, curiosity, despite having its weaknesses, may be the unique characteristic that the female holds, and if further stretched, having “no character at all” could be in turn a character of
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Unlike Toby, Walter believes that both sentiment and knowledge are part of a commerce that can be commoditized and “when things [go] extremely wrong with him, especially upon the first sally of his impatience, - of wondering why he [is] begot, - [wishes] himself dead” (333). The colorful paintings of every crucial member of the family never cease away, for readers are introduced frequently and consistently to new aspects of the characters. Later on in Volume V, all four male characters – Yorick (who reappears after the early mentioning of his death), Walter, Toby, and Trim – merge in the Shandy Hall to narrate the discourse upon the circumcision of Tristram, a young child, aged five at the time (339), with each one displaying his views on life, marriage, conjugal relationship, women, knowledge and wit, and the necessary balance between radical heat and radical moisture as Dr. Slop also appears in the later portion (351-61), with each standing up for oneself as displaying difference in their
Unlike Toby, Walter believes that both sentiment and knowledge are part of a commerce that can be commoditized and “when things [go] extremely wrong with him, especially upon the first sally of his impatience, - of wondering why he [is] begot, - [wishes] himself dead” (333). The colorful paintings of every crucial member of the family never cease away, for readers are introduced frequently and consistently to new aspects of the characters. Later on in Volume V, all four male characters – Yorick (who reappears after the early mentioning of his death), Walter, Toby, and Trim – merge in the Shandy Hall to narrate the discourse upon the circumcision of Tristram, a young child, aged five at the time (339), with each one displaying his views on life, marriage, conjugal relationship, women, knowledge and wit, and the necessary balance between radical heat and radical moisture as Dr. Slop also appears in the later portion (351-61), with each standing up for oneself as displaying difference in their