This study tries to examine Dickens`s important theme of social criticism in his last complete novel Our Mutual Friend with emphasis on his critical account of "reification" and "fetishism" in Victorian society. Combining Marx`s and Lukacs`s concepts of reification and fetishism with Fredric Jameson`s theory of narrative and Mikhail M. Bakhtin`s notion of "novelistic discourse," this paper investigates the socio-historical significance of Dickens`s famous thematic symbols such as Boffin`s "dust-heap" and the dark river of "Thames". Dickens`s novel, it is argued, effectively delineates how the capitalist system necessarily produces the problem of reification and fetishism through his satirical portrayal of such characters as the Veneerings, Silas Wegg, the Mammles and Podsnap. To them, Dickens opposes such characters as Lizzie, Jenny and Boffin who incarnate the high moral values of selfless love and creative imagination. Although Dickens apprarently re-affirms the middle class ideology of "family" and "respectibility" at the end of his novel, his work nevertheless provides a radical critique of the contemporary society as well as a pastoral/utopian vision of an ideal community beyond the dehumanizing forces of Victorian England through his characteristically carnivalesque and dialogic discourse.