Middlemarch, Chapter 20: samenvatting

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1. Alone in their apartment, Dorothea cries and blames her own spiritual shortcomings for her unhappiness.
2. The narrator explains how Rome overwhelms Dorothea and how her husband's learning fails to provide sympathy or understanding.
3. The account returns to breakfast, when Mr. Casaubon discusses leaving Rome and offers Dorothea work copying his notes.
4. Dorothea urges him to begin his book, but he hears an attack on his scholarship and answers angrily.
5. She defends her wish to help, and both feel shocked by their quarrel.
6. They keep their planned Vatican visit; Dorothea wanders unhappily through the Museum, yet seeks something better than despair.

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Dorothea explains the purpose behind her request. Her wish to contribute becomes a quarrel because Casaubon hears judgment rather than devotion.

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