rollope's presentation of anti-semitism in The Way We Live Nowis
confirmed by articles in Punch, the major satiric journal of the
time. In Trollope's novel pandemonium breaks out when Georgiana
announces her engagement to Mr. Brehgert, a Jew. Her appalled
parents, who forbid her to marry him, have a hard time believing
that their daughter would ever consider marrying someone society
considers inferior: "I'm sure your papa won't allow it. If he's
fixed about anything, it's about the Jews. An accursed race; —
think of that, Georgiana; — expelled from Paradise...I'm sure
that Mr. Whitstable, who is to be your brother-in-law, will
never condescend to speak to him" (263). People, like Lady
Monogram, would never permit a Jew to dine with them, even
though he appears noble and respectable. They avoid Jews as much
as possible for fear of damaging their reputation by associating
with them: "I go pretty well everywhere, as you are aware; and I
shouldn't know Mr. Brehgert if I were to see him . . . I don't
feel inclined