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A review by tophat8855
Middlemarch by George Eliot
4.0
Listened via Hoopla. I had missed this book in my school years. I'll have to revisit again later in life as well.
The writing is just beautiful. It doesn't glorify marriage as a goal, though that is the goal of some of the characters. You get it in its flaws. And the inner and outer lives all of the people in the town: great weaving of all the stories.
You are clearly supposed to identify with Dorothea, but I found myself identifying a lot with Lydgate and I don't know what that says about me. I think we all love to despise Casaubon. And we all wanted to smack Fred early on, but he does get his act together. I do kind of wish Dorothea hadn't ended up married in the end- she would have been great as a single woman with her goals. But I get it it.
The writing is just beautiful. It doesn't glorify marriage as a goal, though that is the goal of some of the characters. You get it in its flaws. And the inner and outer lives all of the people in the town: great weaving of all the stories.
You are clearly supposed to identify with Dorothea, but I found myself identifying a lot with Lydgate and I don't know what that says about me. I think we all love to despise Casaubon. And we all wanted to smack Fred early on, but he does get his act together. I do kind of wish Dorothea hadn't ended up married in the end- she would have been great as a single woman with her goals. But I get it it.