Editing David Copperfield (section)

=====Uriah Heep=====
New avatar of this quest, Uriah Heep is "a kind of negative mirror to David".<ref name=Davis1999p91 /> Heep is clever at enlarging the pathos of his humble origins, for example, which ability he exploits shamelessly to attract sympathy and mask an unscrupulous ambition; while David, on the other hand, tends to suppress his modest past and camouflage his social ambitions under a veneer of worldly mistrust, prompting Paul Davis to conclude that, just as Mr Murdstone is adept at firmness, Heep, in addition to being a rascal, lacks the so-called feminine qualities of sensitivity which David does not lose.<ref name=Davis1999p91 />