Middlemarch, Chapter 39: riassunto

Cosa succede

1. Sir James arranges Dorothea’s visit so she can urge Mr. Brooke to repair farms and improve laborers’ homes.
2. Dorothea challenges her uncle’s neglect, but a report that Dagley’s boy kills a leveret interrupts their discussion.
3. Alone with Dorothea, Will reveals Casaubon’s ban on his visits and insists on keeping his work with Brooke.
4. Dorothea explains how seeking goodness sustains her, and Will describes his own belief in loving goodness and beauty.
5. Brooke accompanies Dorothea partway, deflects her renewed appeal, and stops at Dagley’s farm to discuss the boy.
6. Dagley angrily condemns Brooke’s neglect and imagines Reform driving bad landlords away; Brooke escapes when Monk barks.

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Dorothea makes estate management a test of Brooke’s political principles. Dagley’s complaints give concrete force to her demand.

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