


However, it also addresses a change of values and reasoning that otherwise would be left hanging by the death of Mr. Thornton manifests the confluence of her compassion and her business sense, binds these seemingly dichotomous elements together. The ending of the novel, in which a proposal to loan money to a newly benevolent Mr. 1 In almost all cases, Margaret does not so much choose sides as acknowledge mutually dependent and beneficial relationships.

Thornton, and even between her conflicting views of her own intelligence. North and South is a novel defined by the resolution of binary conflicts: heroine Margaret Hale is presented with a number of divisions of sympathy, between industrialists and the working class, between conflicting views of Mr.
