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Thomas Gradgrind, a wealthy, retired merchant in the industrial city of Coketown, England, devotes his life to a philosophy of rationalism, self- interest, and fact.Eventually Louisa marries Gradgrind's friend Josiah Bounderby, a wealthy factory owner and banker more than twice her age.He raises his oldest children, Louisa and Tom, according to this philosophy and never allows them to engage in fanciful or imaginative pursuits.

Thomas Gradgrind, a wealthy, retired merchant in the industrial city of
Coketown, England, devotes his life to a philosophy of rationalism, self-
interest, and fact. He raises his oldest children, Louisa and Tom,
according to this philosophy and never allows them to engage in fanciful
or imaginative pursuits. He founds a school and charitably takes in one
of the students, the kindly and imaginative Sissy Jupe, after the
disappearance of her father, a circus entertainer.
As the Gradgrind children grow older, Tom becomes a dissipated, self-
interested hedonist, and Louisa struggles with deep inner confusion,
feeling as though she is missing something important in her life.
Eventually Louisa marries Gradgrind’s friend Josiah Bounderby, a
wealthy factory owner and banker more than twice her age. Bounderby
continually trumpets his role as a self-made man who was abandoned in
the gutter by his mother as an infant. Tom is apprenticed at the
Bounderby bank, and Sissy remains at the Gradgrind home to care for
the younger children.