Riley’s motives to be realistic, the narrator makes this explicit declaration, shows how much The Mill on the Floss means to draw the reader’s attention to its naturalness, to how likely there is to be a Maggie or a Mr. This world, then, is implicitly not the “world of the dramatist.” It is instead a realistic world where lives are spoiled through “small frauds” and “lazy acquiescence,” not by grand acts of evil.
Stelling so strongly to the Tullivers, she insists that that kind of behavior belongs “in the world of the dramatist” only. Riley motives of self-interest for recommending Mr. This passage highlights Eliot’s interest in realism. It is easy enough to spoil the lives of our neighbours without taking so much trouble: we can do it by lazy acquiescence and lazy omission, by trivial falsities for which we hardly know a reason, by small frauds neutralised by small extravagances, by maladroit flatteries, and clumsily improvised insinuations.” 22 “Plotting covetousness, and deliberate contrivance, in order to compass a selfish end, are nowhere abundant but in the world of the dramatist: they demand too intense a mental action for many of our fellow-parishioners to be guilty of them.
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