the same theatrics, Sophie leaves Tom in a storm that he must try to succumb out from the cloud of betrayal he brought in. Tom again must convince Sophie that he is a good guy at heart and that he will, again, never do such an act again. The problem is that some people just never learn. Yes they can improve, but no, most do not learn.
             Tom ends up in London as a sort of gigolo for Lady Bellaston. The difference this time is that Tom did not even sleep with Lady Bellaston, he was merely using her to find Sophie. With this in mind when Sophie finds him, he is s.o.l. because she does know these facts and again she shows the exact same explosions as before, and he must work even harder to get her respect, love, and forgiveness back. All that Tom was trying to do this time was to be a gentleman, as we can see, but got played off as a gigolo; "...what was worse, he would have thought himself so..." (pg. 468). But what happens to the two living 'happily ever after'?
             Of course the tale could not have ended with Tom in jail sulking over his lost Sophie about to be hung, therefore it is set up that Tom and Sophie marry in the end, and that Tom inherits both of the estates and a name for himself.
             The notion that Tom is a 'player', but is always forgiven is the major coincidence that Henry Fielding sets up, but it is not the only one. Tom Jones has several other coincidental elements twined through out the novel. The first is that Blifil is the complete opposite of Tom on the appearance of everyone else. He is portrayed to be one of the best willed characters in the novel, which only puts down Tom's character; which was considered bad from the start. For after all "it was t
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