The election results have captivated me for the past week and three days. I’m still reading The Mill on the Floss, but am behind schedule. Additionally, I have editorial and publishing-related work to do, as well as poems to write and revise for the classes I’ve taken. That’s not all. Life requires attention to friends,…
The Mill on the Floss, Chapter 9
Visit to Aunt and Uncle Pullet at Garum Firs, but not before Mr. Rappit, the hairdresser, was given the opportunity to say, “‘See here! tut, tut, tut!’ in a tone of mingled disgust and pity,” at the sight of Maggie’s” “jagged locks.” Tom, “peeping through the bars of a gate and making minatory gestures with…
The Mill on the Floss, Day 5, Chapter 8
Mr. Tulliver rides a horse over to the poor land where his impoverished sister lives. He is determined to call in a loan her husband owes him, and equally determined to stay on that horse in order to maintain his severity of purpose. Though Maggie doesn’t appear in chapter 8, she is present in her…
The Mill on the Floss, Day 4, Chapter 7
Today I’m not going to look at Yiyun Li’s commentary until writing my own. Chapter 7 focuses on a dinner in which we meet four grown sisters: Mesdames Tulliver, Glegg, Pullet, and Deane. I’m sure that I have behaved in a manner similar to at least one of them when in company with my own…
The Mill on the Floss, Day 3
Like Yiyun Li, I was struck by the final two sentences of chapter 6. I’m like Maggie, by the way. I love Eliot for making Maggie so relatable. When I meet characters in literature introduced as sharp-smart-intelligent-genius I usually expect them to be right about everything and therefore dull. Maggie doesn’t know-it-all. She reads. Good.