Jekyll. The fact that Dr. Jekyll is only seen in the front of the house, which is well furnished and respectable, brings about the contrasting features of the house. This is also a good time to note that this contradiction of the two sides of the house signifies that Dr. Jekyll is obviously hiding a very big secret, and that there is a big difference between his public and private identity. Mr. Vetterson not knowing what Mr. Hydes connection with Dr. Jekyll is, is also a very big clue to the fact that even when Dr. Jekyll entertains his friends at home, he only has a certain part of the house that he puts on display. These parts on display are mainly the hall, "which was a pet fancy of his and which was." which was supposed to be one of the pleasantest rooms in London; and the dining room. So, the part of the house that Dr. Jekyll liked to show off were large, low roofed, and comfortable; which is a contrast to what it seemed it may be if one saw the house from the back. Other then this, the house seems to be, more or less, private to Dr. Jekyll. As he was a doctor it was know that he did have a laboratory, which is not exposed till the very end of the book when Utterson and the butler break in to find a dead Mr. Hyde. It is very important to speculate on what Dr. Jekyll would have done if he didn"t have the convenience of having the back of his house so rundown and unlike that of the front of the house. There probably would have been no way Dr. Jekyll could have made this distinction between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. And no way he could have been able to keep Mr. Hyde a secret for as long as he did. .

             The importance of Dr. Jekyll keeping up his image of a respectable man, was more important in those times. London, and its society must have been very conscious of class and respectability. A secret of the nature of Dr. Jekyll would have created a scandal beyond belief in those times. This book portrays a very interesting insight into the double sides of human nature.