In the novel "A Tale of Two Cities," by Charles Dickens, Sydney Carton is an important character to the evolution of the story. Throughout the novel, there are many situations where characters express feelings towards each other. Sydney Carton is by far the most expressive in the novel. Carton expresses his care for Lucie when he goes to her house and tells her personally how he loves her, When he asks to be a friend of the Manettes and to be a regular house guest and lastly when Carton gives his life by taking Charles Darnay's place in prison and being executed. This makes Sydney Carton the most expressive character in the novel and a hero. Without the role of Carton the novel would not be the same. .
The first way where Carton expresses his feelings is when, after the trial, when Lucie is being pursued by suitors, he had gone to her house frequently and paced outside of it. One night he had decided to go in and speak with Lucie personally. Once in there and they begin talking, he says that "If it had been possible, Miss Manette, that you could have returned the love for the man you see before you [.] I know very well that you can have no tenderness for me, I ask for none, I am even thankful that it cannot be [.] Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you!" (pg 147-8). Carton had told Lucie that he had loved her so much that he knows that he could never be with her. He had said that being with him would only bring her down and he is thankful that they cannot be together. He said that he would die for Lucie and anyone she loves, which no one in the past had said to her before. He was also the first and only suitor to express his love for Lucie to her personally. Darnay and Stryver had both gone to Dr. Manette to tell him about their love for Lucie instead of telling her themselves. This goes to show that Carton is the most expressive person.