I searched for an image of this work and found that all the pictures for the films are simplistic and misleading. It isn't about anything erotic: there's no kissing in it. It's about something much more complicated than that: it's about where the money comes from. Does your money have murky origins, morally speaking? It's about how wealth can taint character and relationships, and it's about having no parents and having to choose parents with the right values who can form healthy and positive relationships. It's no good hanging onto, or longing for parents who can't do that. And in the end the child has to be his or her own person, live by his own values and judge himself/herself.
The private happiness of good families needs to be defended from the morally compromised Victorian public world, in Wemmick's case, his tiny house is surrounded by a moat and entered across a drawbridge!
It is a superb book that I knew while I was reading it was the best novel I had ever read, but this analysis seems to understand it very well in its substance, rather than poking into its methods.
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