Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde . To cast in my lot with Jekyll, was to die to those appetites which I had long secretly indulged and had of late begun to pamper. To cast it in with Hyde, was to die to a thousand interests and aspirations, and to become, at a blow and forever, despised and friendless. The most likely reason the author included this excerpt from Jekyll’s point of view is to