THE MILL ON THE

FLOSS
BOOK 6 CHAPTER 9
FATIMA AZHER
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Summary
• Maggie played a great part in making the church charity Bazaar a success
• She made a great impression in her white muslin dress and attracts many male customers.
• Wakem came to her stall there and took a strong liking to her, however Stephen’s
conspicuous attentions made Maggie nervous and apprehensive.
• Lucy and Stephen observed as Mr. Wakem approached maggie and Lucy whispered to
Stephen that the family quarrel may be soon healed.
• When stephen noticed that philips seems to be watching maggie very closely he begins to
suspects that there must be some romantic connection between maggie and Philip.
• After a harsh encounter both, philip and Stephen storm out of the bazaar.
• Maggie felt miserable at that strife and seeing her in tears a local vicar, Dr kenn,
approached her and consoled her that he will always be available to help her, which
maggie finds very touching.
• That night she told Lucy that she has to leave to visit her aunt Mrs. Moss and then to take
a new position teaching at school.
• Lucy asked Maggie whether she doesn’t love philip enough to marry him, but Maggie
protest that her only reluctance is Tom’s opposition to the marriage.
Analysis
• Maggie’s plain sewing and plain clothes attract many customers, demonstrating her
appeal again as a woman who subverts conventional gender expectations.
• Lucy is delighted by Mr. Wakem’s approach to Maggie because it seems to suggest
forgiveness and reconciliation on the horizon. Unbeknownst to her, however, further
grudges are brewing between Philip and Stephen, as Stephen begins to suspect the
romantic nature of Maggie and Philip’s relationship.
• Philip calls Stephen a hypocrite because he recognizes that Stephen is only pretending not to
like Maggie by calling her “sullen”—in fact, he has fallen in love with her and deceived Lucy.
Despite Maggie’s distress at this in-fighting, Dr. Kenn’s compassion does a great deal to cheer
her, demonstrating Maggie’s susceptibility to kindness and even one moment of compassion.
• Maggie seems to be using Tom’s stubbornness and the lack of forgiveness between the
Tulliver and Wakem families as a way of justifying her own attraction to Stephen and lack of
clarity about whether she wants to marry Philip. Just when it seems that there might be a way
to get around the Tulliver-Wakem feud, Maggie’s feelings shift, suggesting that it is possible
to grow out of the emotional attachments of childhood and adolescence.
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