But the silence in her husband’s ear was never more to be broken.
Featherstone and Casaubon each has died the day after asking a young woman to do something that would compromise her future, each man receiving a resistant reply.
I don't recall ever noticing this before.
I wonder if Eliot was criticized for linking these two characters with a parallel that can seem unrealistic or clumsy.
But I find it to be neither, and I'd rather have this parallel than have strict realism. This similarity in two deaths does not feel like a cheap coincidence.
