Middlemarch, Chapter 56: Zusammenfassung

Was geschieht

1. Dorothea entrusts estate business to Caleb, while Solomon Featherstone encourages local suspicion of the proposed railway.
2. Fred scatters laborers attacking railway surveyors, helps Caleb’s injured assistant, and takes his place measuring land.
3. Caleb secures the laborers’ promise to stop interfering, despite Timothy Cooper’s doubts about benefits for poor people.
4. Fred asks to learn Caleb’s business, and Caleb decides to help him despite Susan’s preference for Farebrother as Mary’s husband.
5. Caleb criticizes Fred’s handwriting but offers patient instruction and an initial salary of eighty pounds.
6. Fred tells his parents; his father reluctantly accepts the choice, while his mother grieves over his connection with the Garths.

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Caleb treats helping Fred as an obligation rather than a reward Fred must first earn. This principle explains his decision to train him.

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