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Mr. Peter Featherstone
Caleb Garth is a kind, honest, hardworking, and generous man. He is passionate about “business,” the word he uses to describe working in construction and the development of land. However, he has a problem with charging too little for his work or even working for free, and as a result his family is very poor. Caleb is one of the most morally upstanding characters in the novel. He helps many people, particularly Fred, even though he is exasperated by Fred’s behavior. His kindness to Fred arguably emerges from his extremely close relationship with his daughter Mary, who has loved Fred since childhood. Mr. Brooke eventually makes him the manager of both Freshitt and Tipton, which greatly improves his family’s financial circumstances.
Mr. Caleb Garth Quotes in Middlemarch
The Middlemarch quotes below are all either spoken by Mr. Caleb Garth or refer to Mr. Caleb Garth. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Book 4, Chapter 40
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In watching effects, if only of an electric battery, it is often necessary to change our place and examine a particular mixture or group at some distance from the point where the movement we are interested in was set up. The group I am moving towards is at Caleb Garth’s breakfast-table in the large parlour where the maps and desk were: father, mother, and five of the children.
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Mr. Caleb Garth Quotes in Middlemarch
The Middlemarch quotes below are all either spoken by Mr. Caleb Garth or refer to Mr. Caleb Garth. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Book 4, Chapter 40
Quotes
In watching effects, if only of an electric battery, it is often necessary to change our place and examine a particular mixture or group at some distance from the point where the movement we are interested in was set up. The group I am moving towards is at Caleb Garth’s breakfast-table in the large parlour where the maps and desk were: father, mother, and five of the children.
Related Characters:
Related Themes:
Related Literary Devices:
Page Number and Citation:
Explanation and Analysis:
