C5: Summary

Chapter 5: The death of a friend

Summary:

This fifth chapter starts time after the last one. Mr Hyde keeps being disappeared, and everything seems to be as always. Dr Jekyll organizes parties, invites friends and Mr Utterson and Dr Lanyon visit him. However, Dr Jekyll suddenly disappears and he wants to know nothing from nobody, so Mr Utterson decides to visit Dr Lanyon to talk about Jekyll's situation, but Lanyon looks strange and tired, as if he was going to die. When Mr Utterson pronounces Dr Jekyll's name, Dr Lanyon gets pale and says that he doesn't want to hear that name. Then Mr Utterson worries about his friends because they've known each other for a long time, and it had no sense to get angry now. 

After his visit to Dr Lanyon, Mr Utterson writes a letter to Dr Jekyll asking him why doesn't he want to see him and why is he angry with Dr Lanyon. Utterson receives a letter from Dr Jekyll, who says that he's not angry with Lanyon, but that they mustn't see each other never again. In the letter, the doctor says that he has done something wrong and that he's being punished for it. 

Dr Lanyon dies a few days later. After the burial, Mr Utterson goes home and receives a private letter from Dr Lanyon. Inside it there was another envelope where was written not to open it after Dr Jekyll's death. Mr Utterson has temptations, but he decides to respect his friend's last wish. Mr Utterson visits again Dr Jekyll, but his servant tells him that the doctor wants to see nobody. Finally, Mr Utterson becames tired of his old friend's attitude and he stops visiting him.