1. Chapter 3: Dr. Jekyll Was Quite at Ease
1. How does Jekyll describe Lanyon? What does this suggest about Jekyll’s feelings about his own abilities?
2. What does Jekyll ask of Utterson at the end of the chapter? Why does Utterson have strong misgivings about this request?

2. Chapter 4: The Carew Murder Case
1. What is revealed about the levels of Victorian society in the first page of this chapter? 2. How is Hyde described as he kills Sir Danvers Carew? How does this image fit with the other physical descriptions Stevenson has given of Hyde? 3. As Utterson takes the police officer to arrest Hyde, Stevenson gives a vivid description of “the dismal quarter of Soho” where Hyde lives. What is the effect of this description on our mood? What is the effect of this description on our understanding of Hyde?

3. Chapter 4: The Carew Murder Case
4. Why do you think that Utterson feels “a terror of the law and the law’s officers” (16)? 5. Is there any significance in the fact that although Hyde’s specific facial features cannot be recognized, everyone remembers the sense of deformity he conveyed?