Our Mutual Friend is about money money money and what money can make of life. This theme plays an important part in  Dickens earlier fiction too but never does Dickens so concentrate his attention on the power of money as in this last of his completed novels."Thus writes J. Hills Miller in his Afterword to a work that ranks among Dickens greatest artistic triumphs utilizing in it. dramatically constructed plot a mysterious inheritance, a bitter love triangle, and a cast of characters that range from the highest to the lowest social levels, the novel present's a witty indictment of a society fallen prey to the dehumanizing spirit of a burgeoning commercial age .