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.
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot, Days 1 & 2
I’m happy that APS Together is offering another group read with Yiyun Li. I enjoyed Charles Dickens’ Bleak House so much last November. As the nights grow long, it seems natural to dive into another weighty Victorian novel. The Mill on the Floss tells the story of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, a sibling pair whose…
Recovering from Vacation
It was a lot. I’ll be back tomorrow. Meanwhile, enjoy “The Lady of the Lake,” a sculpture on the Burlington, Ontario shoreline.