I don’t know if it’s horrible, maybe it is, but I was also relived when Causaubon died. The end of that chapter broke my heart though, for Dorothea and for him. And I do hope she will get a happy ending. She was willing to sacrifice everything for him, and in his selfishness he died without trusting his wife. It’s horrible really, for him, to have died so lonely - “what loneliness is more lonely than distrust?” as Eliot says…
I don’t know if it’s horrible, maybe it is, but I was also relived when Causaubon died. The end of that chapter broke my heart though, for Dorothea and for him. And I do hope she will get a happy ending. She was willing to sacrifice everything for him, and in his selfishness he died without trusting his wife. It’s horrible really, for him, to have died so lonely - “what loneliness is more lonely than distrust?” as Eliot says…