The thing about marrying a much older man, though, is that they pass away and leave you free to remarry. But don't worry – Dorothea's halfway to sainthood, and she's not about to cheat on her husband.
Especially Dorothea, who finds that he understands her in a way her husband doesn't. Lydgate finds Will to be sympathetic to his ideas about science and medicine, and since Will is an outsider in Middlemarch, too, they quickly become friends. Will is a handsome, young artist with a sparkling wit. These two unhappy couples (the Lydgates and the Casaubons) are connected by Mr. And then they run out of money because neither of them knows how to stick to a budget. More unhappiness in marriage! Lydgate discovers that Rosamond is a superficial and selfish, and Rosamond learns that Lydgate will always be "married" to his work as a doctor. Lydgate falls in love with Rosamond Vincy, the sister of one his patients, and marries her. Second, they don't trust new ideas, and Lydgate is all about scientific progress. First of all, most of the residents of Middlemarch have lived in the town for their whole lives, and they don't trust newcomers. Meanwhile, an idealistic young doctor named Tertius Lydgate moves to Middlemarch to set up a practice with his new-fangled ideas about medicine and science. Dorothea quickly discovers that he cares more for his own scholarly pursuits than he does for her, but she can't do much about it (this is in the days before divorce was allowed for anything other than adultery or physical abuse). Her main ambition in life is to take on a noble project – so she marries a dried-up old scholar named Casaubon, thinking that helping him in his research will be the project she's after. But she's also so idealistic, it's almost laughable. She's got all the makings of a Victorian heroine: she's beautiful, intelligent, and generous.
Dorothea Brooke is a young woman living with her uncle and sister in the small-but-growing town of Middlemarch, England in around 1830.
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