tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426133566476743259.post3709466113526217838..comments2023-04-24T16:45:24.838-07:00Comments on Blogging the Canon: The End of the Mill on the Floss (Spoiler Alert!)Robby Virushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01206018782013858134noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426133566476743259.post-65419091561061575552013-06-17T14:32:59.972-07:002013-06-17T14:32:59.972-07:00the water at the end of the novel and all througho...the water at the end of the novel and all throughout is supposed to be a biblical reference, so Noahs ark type of thing. And I agree the ending was really bleak but I'm not really sure how else I would have ended the book. Maggie was stuck. It didn't matter what she didn't, not matter how hard she tried she couldn't really obtain what she truly wanted b/c of the way their society was.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07498568695752580058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426133566476743259.post-86489290172386004822013-06-17T14:32:38.744-07:002013-06-17T14:32:38.744-07:00the water at the end of the novel and all througho...the water at the end of the novel and all throughout is supposed to be a biblical reference, so Noahs ark type of thing. And I agree the ending was really bleak but I'm not really sure how else I would have ended the book. Maggie was stuck. It didn't matter what she didn't, not matter how hard she tried she couldn't really obtain what she truly wanted b/c of the way their society was.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07498568695752580058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426133566476743259.post-1844710017869922832012-11-02T16:55:40.151-07:002012-11-02T16:55:40.151-07:00P.S. I am also a middle-aged woman reading the cla...P.S. I am also a middle-aged woman reading the classics. I finished Susan Wise-Bauer's list (The Well Educated Mind) in 2011 and just completed another one this year. Now I am working on the Invitation to the Classics list. :) I haven't posted all my reviews of SWB's books, but that might be a project I do when I am done with ITC. Check it out at http://carolhomeschool2.blogspot.com/ Such a fun adventure for us!dCarol Ann Weaverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13676125721105006155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426133566476743259.post-10630776606052761862012-11-02T16:53:08.099-07:002012-11-02T16:53:08.099-07:00I googled you to see what the ending was like. I h...I googled you to see what the ending was like. I have a friend who HATES that book, and I love George Eliot but have never read Mill on the Floss. She says, "She will never forgive her for that ending." So, I had to find it. I don't think it would have bothered me quite as much as it bothered her because she is more of a romantic than me! I LOVED Silas Marner, and I am currently listening to Middlemarch, and I think it is BRILLIANT (my husband read it years ago, and I watched the mini-series and was going to call it good, but you know that the book is always better than the movie!). Carol Ann Weaverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13676125721105006155noreply@blogger.com