Summary Mrs. Tulliver reminds her husband that it will be hard for him to find five hundred pounds to pay Mrs. Glegg. This convinces him that he can find it easily. But the only way he can think of to accomplish this is to demand payment of the three hundred […]
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Summary Mrs. Glegg is the first of the aunts to arrive. She passes the time by complaining how the old ways have altered, now that some of the family are later than others. She declines a bit of cheesecake because it is against her principles to eat between meals, but […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Book 1: Boy and Girl: Chapter 7 – Enter the Aunts and UnclesSummary and Analysis Book 1: Boy and Girl: Chapter 6 – The Aunts and Uncles Are Coming
Summary The aunts and uncles are to be invited to discuss Tom’s education, and Mr. and Mrs. Tulliver are working out the details. Mr. Tulliver is not concerned about their opinions, and he cares less than does his wife about the money her relatives might leave to Maggie and Tom. […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Book 1: Boy and Girl: Chapter 6 – The Aunts and Uncles Are ComingSummary and Analysis Book 1: Boy and Girl: Chapter 5 – Tom Comes Home
Summary Tom has brought home a gift for Maggie, a new fish line. He acquired it at some cost to himself, having had to fight every day at school because he wouldn’t share the cost of toffee and gingerbread while he was saving the money. For this and for his […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Book 1: Boy and Girl: Chapter 5 – Tom Comes HomeSummary and Analysis Book 1: Boy and Girl: Chapter 4 – Tom Is Expected
Summary Because Maggie is not allowed to go out to meet Tom on his arrival, she takes revenge by dousing her newly brushed hair in a basin of water and then goes to the attic to torment a doll she keeps as a fetish. Finally she tires of that and […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Book 1: Boy and Girl: Chapter 4 – Tom Is ExpectedSummary and Analysis Book 1: Boy and Girl: Chapter 3 – Mr. Riley Gives His Advice Concerning a School for Tom
Summary Mr. Riley comes to visit, and before supper Mr. Tulliver asks his advice about a school for Tom. He hints that he thinks it best to start Tom in another field, “as he may make a nest for himself, an’ not want to push me out o’ mine.” Maggie […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Book 1: Boy and Girl: Chapter 3 – Mr. Riley Gives His Advice Concerning a School for TomSummary and Analysis Book 1: Boy and Girl: Chapter 2 – Mr. Tulliver, of Dorlcote Mill, Declares His Resolution about Tom
Summary Mr. Tulliver states his intention of sending Tom to a different school, where he can learn to be “a sort o’ engineer, or a surveyor, or an auctioneer and vallyer, like Riley, or one o’ them smartish businesses as are all profits and no outlay . . . .” […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Book 1: Boy and Girl: Chapter 2 – Mr. Tulliver, of Dorlcote Mill, Declares His Resolution about TomSummary and Analysis Book 1: Boy and Girl: Chapter 1 – Outside Dorlcote Mill
Summary The novel opens with a description of the countryside around the town of St. Ogg’s and the river Floss. Impersonal description quickly gives way to a more personal tone, and we see that the story is to be a personal reminiscence of a narrator whose character we do not […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Book 1: Boy and Girl: Chapter 1 – Outside Dorlcote MillCharacter List
Maggie Tulliver The intelligent, emotionally sensitive daughter of a country mill-owner. Her life is the central story of the novel. Tom Tulliver Maggie’s older brother, whom she loves in spite of his strictness with her. Mr. Tulliver Fiery owner of Dorlcote Mill. He is particularly attached to his daughter Maggie, […]
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Mr. Tulliver has decided to remove Tom from the academy where he presently studies and send him to a school where he can learn things that will raise him in the world. Mr. Tulliver has indefinite ideas on education, and he seeks advice from an acquaintance, Mr. Riley, whom he […]
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