Vincent, Dickens's sympathy for Magwitch and the fact that it is the law, and not the author himself, who deports him implies that Dickens does not support the law that sentences Magwitch to death. Magwitch is described as someone who had “adopted industrious habits and prospered legally and respectably” (Dickens, 456). Dickens's sympathy towards Magwitch as a hard worker who has earned the right to return home contrasts with his frustration with the law. The law cannot take into account the sentence served or the industriousness of a criminal, but can only try him for his return to his homeland: «Nothing could deny the fact that he had returned... It was impossible to try him for this, and to do otherwise than find him guilty” (Dickens, 456). This lack of redemptive power in the law clearly frustrates Dickens, along with the fact that the law traps lower-class offenders in a cycle of