Middlemarch: resumen de Finale

Qué sucede

1. Fred and Mary enjoy a steady marriage, raise three sons, publish books, and live comfortably without becoming rich.
2. Lydgate earns a strong income but considers himself unsuccessful; he dies at fifty, and Rosamond marries another physician.
3. Dorothea finds happiness with Will, whose work for reform brings him into Parliament.
4. News of Dorothea’s baby moves Celia to demand a visit, and Sir James agrees to reconciliation.
5. Mr. Brooke’s estate passes to Dorothea’s son, though Middlemarch continues to judge her marriages harshly.
6. The narrator presents Dorothea’s quiet influence as part of the unnoticed work that improves other people’s lives.

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The sentence connects personal choices with social conditions. It explains why Dorothea’s generous aims do not take an ideal or publicly celebrated form.

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