She wants to be the best at everything she wants to be admired by all. Gwendolyn is a beautiful, strong, and sometimes arrogant young woman. It’s more a story about two really interesting people. This is not a book where much happens, despite its length. One of the real strengths of this book is how much attention Eliot devotes to her two main characters, Daniel Deronda and Gwendolyn Harleth. I was also interested to get a good sense of public (non-Jewish) opinion towards Jews at the time, not that you can get that from one novel. Daniel Deronda is one of the few books in Victorian English literature that has Jewish main characters. I’ve wanted to read this book for a while, ever since I read Middlemarch. By that I mean, I got halfway into this book and realized the only way I was going to get through the long-winded parts was to skim a little (I do mean “a little”). I didn’t read this book as well as I would have liked. I finally finished it! Not the best way to start a review, I’m afraid.
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