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Eliot's 'Middlemarch.'.(George Eliot's book)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 19990101
Author:Harrison, James

The character Dorothea Casaubon in George Eliot's novel 'Middlemarch' possesses an increasingly morose view of the corruption within the holy city of Rome due to her own personal disappointments in her marriage to an elderly man. The imagery of a red drapery hung for Christmas that was used in the first five paragraphs subtlely alluded to the girl's realization of her lot as a still-untouched wife who would have to face the loneliness of widowhood in the near future.

In chapter 19 of Middlemarch we catch our first glimpse of Dorothea Casaubon, her wedding having taken place off-page. It ...

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