OLD AND YOUNG - MIDELMARCH
0 LikesAs seasons pass in Middlemarch, the boundaries between old and young begin to blur. Dorothea's marriage curdles into disappointment, yet within it she finds an unlikely widening of spirit a compassion that reaches toward those the town has already written off, including a young cousin whose scandal threatens to cost him everything.
Lydgate's early promise dims under debt and misunderstanding, teaching him what his elders always knew and never said aloud: that ideals bend under the weight of ordinary life. His marriage to the beautiful, brittle Rosamond becomes its own quiet tragedy two young people bound together, neither able to give the other what they need.
- Published
- July 12, 1857