Jekyll and Hyde: Chapter 2
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Chapter questions
- Question 1 · Recall
What does Jekyll's will say happens to his goods if he dies or vanishes for over three months?
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Everything goes to Edward Hyde.Reference: Chapter 2, Utterson reads the will
- Question 2 · Recall
Where does Dr. Lanyon live?
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At Cavendish Square.Reference: Chapter 2, Utterson visits Lanyon
- Question 3 · Recall
What does Poole confirm that Hyde has?
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A key to the house, and the servants have orders to obey him.Reference: Chapter 2, Poole's report
- Question 4 · Why
Why did Lanyon and Jekyll fall out?
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Lanyon says Jekyll grew too fanciful and took up unscientific ideas.Reference: Chapter 2, Utterson visits Lanyon
- Question 5 · Why
Why does Hyde giving his Soho address trouble Utterson?
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It suggests Hyde expected questions about the will, so Utterson fears Hyde may want Jekyll dead.Reference: Chapter 2, the meeting at the door
Chapter summary
Utterson takes out Dr. Jekyll's will from his safe. It says that if Jekyll dies, or vanishes for more than three months, everything goes to Edward Hyde. The will had troubled Utterson for a long time, and now that he has heard about Hyde it horrifies him.
He visits Dr. Lanyon, Jekyll's old friend, at Cavendish Square. Lanyon says Jekyll became too fanciful years ago and drifted into unscientific ideas, so the two fell out. Lanyon has never heard of Hyde.
Utterson then begins to watch the door at night. On a frosty evening a small, plainly dressed man comes up with a key, and Utterson greets him as Mr. Hyde. Hyde is startled, then answers coolly and gives an address in Soho. Utterson finds him pale, dwarfish and deeply unpleasant, though he cannot name a single defect. Afterward Utterson tells Jekyll's butler, Poole, that he saw Hyde go in by the old dissecting-room door. Poole confirms that Hyde has a key, that he mostly comes and goes by the laboratory, and that the servants have orders to obey him.
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