# Endnotes explained — Martin Chuzzlewit

> Chapter companion for Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens.

## What happens

The author addresses the reader directly, noting with irony that some credulous readers once mistook Mr. Pecksniff's hypocritical reasoning for the author's own views.

## Themes in this chapter

### Hypocrisy and Self-Deception

The author highlights the irony that Pecksniff's hypocritical reasoning was taken as the author's own, underscoring the theme of self-deception and moral blindness.

## Character check-ins

### Seth Pecksniff

Mentioned as the character whose reasoning was mistakenly attributed to the author.

## Key lines

> The most credulous reader will scarcely believe that Mr. Pecksniff’s reasoning was once set upon as the Author’s!!

It is hard to imagine that any reader, no matter how gullible, could have mistaken Mr. Pecksniff's twisted logic for the author's own.

_The author expresses wry disbelief that Pecksniff's hypocrisy was ever taken seriously._

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