Status Updates From Middlemarch

It was a bit of whiplash to go from Dorothea’s story to Fred, Lydgate and the others. Now that I’m back on Dorothea and Casaubon, though, all I feel is frustration, and okay, a bit of compassion…. Dorothea is so keen to make Something of herself through her husband’s work that she sees value in his work that may not be there, feels affection that seems unrequited, and still has to put up with his jealousy.