Characterization English 11 Question 7 Consider this passage

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Characterization English 11 Question 7 Consider this passage from Middlemarch by George Eliot What does this passage tell the reader about Dorothea Select one She hopes to get a better husband than her sister Celia She is jealous of her sister Celia s good looks She wants to find a husband who will let her pursue her language studies O She thinks she would not be as good a wife as her sister Celia The rural opinion about the new young ladies even among the cottagers was generally in favor of Celia as being so amiable and innocent looking while Miss Brooke s large eyes seemed like her religion too unusual and striking Poor Dorotheal compared with her the innocent looking Celia was knowing and worldly wise so much subtler is a human mind than the outside tissues which make a sort of blazonry or clock face for it Yet those who approached Dorothea though prejudiced against her by this alarming hearsay found that she had a charm unaccountably reconcilable with it Most men thought her bewitching when she was on horseback She loved the fresh air and the various aspects of the country and when her eyes and cheeks glowed with mingled pleasure she looked very little like a devotee Riding was an indulgence which she allowed herself in spite of conscientious qualms she felt that she enjoyed it in a pagan sensuous way and always looked forward to renouncing it She was open ardent and not in the least self admiring indeed it was pretty to see how her imagination adorned her sister Celia with attractions altogether superior to her own and if any gentleman appeared to come to the Grange from some other motive than that of seeing Mr Brooke she concluded that he must be in love with Celia Sir James Chettam for example whom she constantly considered from Celia s point of view inwardly debating whether it would be good for Celia to accept him That he should be regarded as a suitor to herself would have seemed to her a ridiculous irrelevance Dorothea with all her eagerness to know the truths of life retained very childlike ideas about marriage She felt sure that she would have accepted the judicious Hooker if she had been born in time to save him from that wretched mistake he made in matrimony or John Milton who