But Philip Wakem, hunch-backed son of the lawyer, was friends with Tom at school and has fallen in love with Maggie. In the end this proves his downfall and he becomes bankrupt, managing the mill for new owner Mr Wakem, the lawyer who defeated him, who becomes the family's bete-noire. Mr Tulliver is impetuous and inflexible and as a result is repeatedly going to law to protect his rights as mill-owner. Of course, you could blame their parents. The pair fight and quarrel, Maggie does daft things because she is impetuous and Tom does daft things because he is inflexible. It traces the relationship of brother and sister Tom and Maggie TulliverĮliot is remarkably good at an unsentimental depiction of children. This is a classic work by the author of Middlemarch, Romola, Adam Bede, and Silas Marner.
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