... that everyone goes through in adolescence." (Wiche, Dave 1) While Eugenide's was writing Middlesex, he underwent two life-altering events: his father died in a plane crash, and he became a father. Middlemarch by George Eliot inspired Eugenides to finish Middlesex because the character of Casaubon, the scholar who can never finish the book he is working on, which was a frightening example to him of what ... ...

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