Chapter 19-resumé af Middlemarch

Hvad sker der?

1. During Dorothea’s wedding journey to Rome, Adolf Naumann brings Will Ladislaw to see her standing near a reclining statue.
2. Dorothea notices the strangers and moves away to join her maid and courier.
3. Naumann praises her beauty, proposes a portrait, and learns that her husband is Will’s second cousin.
4. Will refuses to help arrange the portrait and argues that painting cannot capture a woman’s voice or changing presence.
5. Naumann teases Will about jealousy, and Will privately recognizes his disproportionate irritation and new feelings concerning Dorothea.

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Will recognizes an inward change despite dismissing his irritation as unreasonable. The encounter becomes personally significant rather than merely an argument about art.

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