Mercedes’s Reviews > The Mill on the Floss > Status Update

But Maggie, who had little more power of concealing the impressions made upon her than if she had been constructed of musical strings,

I've decided Maggie is the most accurate representation of me as a child since Lilo of Lilo & Stitch, and also that she is the only likeable character.

amazing how quickly i'm struck (again) by george eliot's observations on human behaviour. i'm not sure any novelist understood people as well as she did.