the novel is set in the period of George Eliot’s own childhood, in the pre-railway, Pre-industrial age, with its settled and secure order, and patterns of life and trade inherited from the earlier period. tom and Maggie, the principal characters, are the children of the honest hut ignorant and obstinate Mr. Tulliver, the Miller of dorlcote mill on the Floss. Tom is prosaic youth, narrow of i…