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Mr. Sowerberry
Mr. Sowerberry is a fictional character who appears as a weak antagonist in the Charles Dickens novel ''Oliver Twist''. He is an undertaker and coffin maker who owns and operates a small dark shop in a small town some 75 miles from London. This shop also serves as a dwelling for himself, his wife, a maidservant named Charlotte, an assistant named Noah Claypole, and, for a short period, an apprentice, Master Oliver Twist.
==Description==
In the novel Sowerberry is described as a "''tall gaunt, large jointed man, attired in a suit of threadbare black, with darned cotton stockings of the same colour, and shoes to answer''." The various stage and screen adaptations of the novel do their best to interpret this description, and, based on evidence of the funerary practices and social customs of the time, present him as a sometimes weak, miserly, menacing and unwelcomed dark spectre.
Although portrayed somewhat humorously in the musical, particularly in his feigning subservience to Mrs. Sowerberry, Mr. Sowerberry is nonetheless a miser who, despite what wealth he has acquired over the years, does very little to improve the squalid lives of those around him simply because he believes it is the job of others and is therefore none of his concern. In the scene where he visits the home of a destitute family whose mother has died, there is no overt callousness, it is merely a job and nothing more.
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