On the shipboard voyage, he meets Lucinda, a young woman who shares his penchant for gambling and owns the Prince Rupert Glass Works in Sydney.
He goes to Oxford to become an Anglican priest and eventually decides to become a missionary in Australia as a penance for his gambling. He is a nervous, sensitive person with a severe phobia of drowning and depends on games of chance to guide his path through life. In Victorian England, Oscar, a motherless boy grows up in Devon with a strict, religious father, Theophilus(friend of God). If you’ve not read the book or seen the film, or even read my review of Oscar and Lucinda, I’ll recap. You may be partly right, but it’s also an essay about how an author can use names to create a subconscious message. Some regular readers may think this is just a post where I can witter on about my favorite story. The Meaning of Names in Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
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