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Quotes by George Eliot, 'The Mill on the Floss' (1860).
The book's ending generated a lot of discussion, if not criticism, and G.Eliot was aware that Maggie Tulliver's death would have been justified by longer preparation in the narrative, as the author put it "the tragedy is not adequately prepared".
According to Henry James in Views and Reviews (1908), "The story is told as if it were destined to have, if not a strictly happy termination, at least one within ordinary probabilities. As it stands, the dénouement shocks the reader most painfully. Nothing has prepared him for it; the story does not move towards it; it casts no shadow before it.”
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