Dream-Children: Reverie

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It is a personal essay, also called a familiar essay, and it belongs to Essays of Elia. The essay mixes memory, imagination, and sadness as the narrator recalls his family and the life he might have l…

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John and Alice are imaginary children created in the narrator's reverie. They are not real children; they exist only in the narrator's dream-like imagination and fade away at the end.

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The narrator is Charles Lamb writing in his essay persona, Elia. He speaks in the first person and recalls family memories, childhood experiences, and the life he never had.

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The central idea is the sorrowful thought of 'what might have been.' The narrator imagines a family life with children, but the ending reveals that this life is only a dream and never became real.

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She was the narrator's great-grandmother and had charge of a great house in Norfolk. She was loved and respected, remembered as pious, kind, and faithful, and the narrator recalls her with warmth.

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A great house in Norfolk is described as being a hundred times bigger than the house where the narrator and his father lived. It becomes an important setting for memory, family history, and childhood …

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She is remembered as religious, good, loving, and dignified. Even when the house later decayed, her memory remained connected with care, respect, and family affection.

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Her funeral is described as being attended by many poor people and some gentry from the neighbourhood. This shows that she was respected by all classes because she had been a good and religious woman.