What Is The Character Of George Eliot'sThe Mill On The Floss

Her name is Connie, and she is not unlike many girls of the time she lives in. She is vain, she is constantly at war with her family, and she is in an incredible rush to grow up. Her race to maturity is the trait focused on in Joyce Carol Oates' "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been." It splits Connie into two different personalities: 'One for home, and one for anywhere that was not home' (431). Everything about her?her walk, her smile, and her laugh?metamorphoses as soon as she steps out the front door. The child is hidden, the seductive young woman emerges, and the world of the ?big kids? is more than willing to take her in. This world is what

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During the course of the story I became more and more compassionate towards Maggie. And the reason are she was a figure of purity, uncorrupted by self-interest, shy,

Stephen Crane's novel "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets" is about a girl named Maggie Johnson and her family, who grow up in the slums of NYC, in a tenement house. Maggie has two brothers, one of which dies, an abusive mother and a drunken father. She grows up in a poor dysfunctional family. Their house environment is the beginning of her struggle and the beginning of her internal struggle. Maggie dreams of a better life than what she had to suffer through in the beginning but that hope, unfortunately goes unfulfilled and Maggie's life continues to fall downhill.

The novel starts out in Maggie’s point of view. Maggie is someone who had witnessed some dark acts and was mute. Maggie had just moved to Lawton,Alabama to live with her Aunt Coralee, Uncle Boone, and her cousin Brady. She had just arrived and her Aunt Coralee and Uncle Boone were watching her with a certain hopefulness in their eye. They hoped Maggie would love her new home. They showed Maggie to her new room, which they had painted a cotton-candy blue. It was a large bedroom, the walls were blue and everything else was white. In Maggie’s words,” I liked it. If I weren’t afraid of my own voice, I’d tell her thank you.” Maggie’s new room was formerly Brady’s room and Brady was now staying in the attic room of the house. Brady was informed that he had several classes with Maggie and would need to show her around.

This is shown in chapter two when Maggie is beaten by her brother, “As his sister continued her lamentations, he suddenly swore and struck her.” Maggie did not feel safe in her home because of her aggressive family members. In the one place where she should feel the safest, she feels fearful. Even after the physical abuse from her family members halts, the mental abuse continues. Her mother repeatedly yells at her, exclaiming verbal attacks like "where deh hell yeh been? Why deh hell don' yeh come home earlier? Been loafin' 'round deh streets. Yer gettin' teh be a reg'lar devil," in chapter six. Maggie does not have a comforting life in her home and she is alone despite having family members constantly around her. Without a supportive family, Maggie becomes unable to resist the temptation to become corrupt, like her family, because she is constantly being exposed to the destructive

Her thick long mane fail messily onto the right side of her shoulder perfectly, while she adjusted her skin tight apple red dress. She had on gold bamboo earrings, and black Steve Madden stilettos with red heels. She could be a classy bitch when she wanted to, but would still knock a hoe out in a heartbeat. That was the fiery side of her. She had that whole beautiful nutjob vibe going on. Her body still looked great for her age. Gravity had been treating her well. Even despite all the boozing. Still, cigarette in one hand, her clutch in the other, my mom was a complete knockout. Model pretty, but not model like .As I untwisted my light brown ponytail I gazed at her. Staring at a face that looked so similar to mine, but a scowl that appeared so different at the same time. Her eye makeup ran slightly, but she was already too buzzed up to

Yet she drinks regularly and goes into violent rages, throwing things around, and destroying her house.It is contradictory that Mrs. Johnson never reprimands Jimmie for the trouble that he is involved in. If anybody could comprehend and associate with Maggie’s feelings of loneliness and hopelessness, it should have been her mother. Mrs.

Crane in one chapter describes what became of Maggie by giving her no worth and what would be assumed as her death by suicide or murder he left it to our imagination. Maggie’s mother was an example of who not to be like a fearful drunk. Maggie tried her best to make it out and be something but the easy way is never the best

In George Eliot’s Middlemarch, Will Ladislaw is introduced as Mr. Casaubon’s young cousin. He is seen in the gardens at Lowick Manor and described as “a gentleman with a sketch book […] and light brown curls” (49). Mr. Casaubon describes him as a young man who with a mercurial temperament, general inclination to resist responsibility and an affinity towards grand artistic endeavors. Later in the book, town gossip Mrs. Cadwallader refers to him as “a dangerous little sprig […] with his opera song and his ready tongue. A sort of Byronic, amorous conspirator” (237). In ‘Middlemarch,’ Eliot weaves a character with a Romantic character into the social web of a provincial Victorian village. Eliot’s depiction of Ladislaw’s coming-of-age journey

Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by English author George Eliot, first published in eight instalments during 1871. The novel is set in the fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch during 1829–32, and it comprises several distinct stories and a large cast of characters. Significant themes include the status of women, the nature of marriage, idealism, self-interest, religion, hypocrisy, political reform, and education.

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Growing up as a child Alice Walker was the youngest of her eight siblings. Younger siblings are never taken as seriously as their older counterparts. Having older sisters and brothers who have already realized their own distinct personalities can make it more difficult for a younger child to truly understand themselves as an individual. Just like Maggie, Alice was shy and timid; “Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes: she will stand hopelessly in corners… eying her sister with a mixture of envy and awe.”(345). As a younger sister myself, I can understand little Maggie’s envy of her older more confident sister. In her eyes Dee was more loved and thought about constantly; “I dream a dream in which Dee and I are suddenly brought together” (345). Walker felt that she was never as important. She was self-conscious and kept more to herself than her family did. She wanted

George Eliot is a verbose writer, and is exceedingly descriptive when it comes to her characters in The Mill on the Floss. Three central characters Eliot paints with an especially detailed and many-layered brush are Maggie, Tom, and Mr. Tulliver.