That she gives this respect such great importance betrays her desire to become Tom’s equal. Therefore, Maggie yearns for Tom’s respect. Tom’s responses to her unconstrained protestations of love are often cold and standoffish. Maggie looks up to Tom this is evident in her frequent expressions of love for her older sibling. Eliot sets up Maggie’s early childhood as the juxtaposition of the experience of Maggie with that of her brother. She does so through a rejection of femininity, which is also a failed attempt to own the status granted to masculine Tom. Maggie’s first attempt at heroism is an attempt to secure the heroic independence and leadership possessed by her brother Tom. They will never understand anything that needs really careful thought” (David, 2000). Stelling, the schoolteacher, proclaims, “ Girls can be quite clever, but their cleverness is shallow.
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