George Eliot"ADAM BEDE"

But, unlike a savage and sometimes impetuous and angry Adam, " solidification had never in his life spoken a harsh word to his flummox, and shadowy people always wreak their peevishness on the pleasing" (p. 33). In this scene one(a) can see how their beat favors Adam, when Seth admits he has not had his supper, Lisbeth promises to fix him something, but for him not to eat the potatoes and gravy she had fixed for her eldest son.

Seth, of course, is the more ghostlike one, and it is up to him to comfort his mother, who seems afraid that Adam is going to sit up one day and leave to live on his own. It is obvious that this provide happen, and that Seth, out of the goodness of his heart and his family obligations, will remain behind. Seth is the one that does the errands, and the one usually send (as in this scene (p. 39) to go find his father if he has not returned by morning.

Of course, Seth tried to comfort his mother on his father's death. "I want thee to have a transfuse of tea, mother" (p. 78). But, again, we see how she favors Adam. "I'll go an' see arter Adam" (p. 78). However, when Dinah comes to

visit, she puts her in a category with Seth: "y'are a Methody like Seth" (p. 81) as if it is a discipline of complaint. Seth, of course, was in love with this woman preacher, and he felt it, level(p) at the time of his father's demise. "The joy of being with Dinah would triumph. . .

the feeling level off suffused itself over his face so as to attract his mother's notice, plain as she was drinking her tea" (p. 82).

Seth, of course, more than his brother, comforted his mother, oddly at the funeral when she seemed anxious enough to die and be dictated next to her husband. What seems to come out of instanterhere, when Adam is leery of marrying Hetty, is that he is poor, one reason being that he paid for a "substitute" to go into the army instead of his younger brother, Seth. However, when one asks why Seth gave up his unrequited love, he is plainly making an emotional sacrifice, as he tells his brother "I'm means?I'll be an old bachelor and make a bring forth wi' thy children" (p. 284). Adam was going to marry Hetty, as more or less preordained. But, the tragedy about her baby changed everyone's future. Adam was now determined to move Seth and his mother to a " brisk neighborhoo
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