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The mill on the floss sparknotes6/1/2023 Tulliver's pride and inability to adapt to the changing economic world causes him to lose his property in a lawsuit against Lawyer Wakem and eventually die as the result of his fury toward Wakem. Rising action Incurious Tom is sent to school, while Maggie is held "uncanny" for her intelligence. Major conflict Maggie must choose between her inner desire toward passion and sensuous life and her impulse towards moral responsibility and the need for her brother's approval and love. Ogg's in English midlands (real life model for the Floss was the Trent in Lincolnshire) Tone The tone can vary from lightly satiric when dealing with lesser characters, to elegiac or only slightly ironic when dealing with main characters. Point of view The narrator speaks in the first person at selective points of narration but for all else, narrates as though third-person omniscient. Narrator The unnamed narrator was alive for Maggie Tulliver's life and is narrating the events many years later. Time and place written Richmond and Wandsworth in England, 1859–1860 Author George Eliot (pseudonym for Marian Evans)
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