Everyone has those days where nothing goes right. For example you spill juice on your favorite outfit. You get tongue-tied and sound ridiculous while talking to the guy you like. Ever since Fred Vincy took out a loan nothing ever goes right for him. Fred asked for Caleb Garth’s help, to pay back the loan by putting his name on the bill. Fred had also planned to sell his horse, but through some freak accident the horse is lamed and he can’t sell it. Unfortunately, now he has to ask Mary and the other Garths for money, because he is too afraid to face his father.

Fred should just man up and tell his father what happened. It is not like his father will kill him for doing something so stupid without fearing he will be damned to hell himself. On top of everything Mary may not marry him and he is probably going to be hated by the rest of her family forever.

Dorothea also had everything go wrong for her after her wedding day. Now her younger sister Celia is marrying James Chettam whom Dorothea was supposed to marry before she decided to marry Casaubon. Even with that, Dorothea is still trying to make things work with Casaubon. In a heated argument with Dorothea, Casaubon suffers some sort of stroke or heart attack after a huge fight about Ladislaw. When he recovers he finally gives Dorothea something to do. He makes her review his notes and writes everything down exactly to his dictation. Dorothea still seems like she is going to go crazy, if she stays married to Casaubon. She now has second thoughts and seems to be thinking she should have married Chettam.

Dorothea is also getting letters from Ladislaw even when Casaubon would like for them to never have any contact at all.

Dorothea also is probably feeling hated as her husband still barely spends time with her and treats her like she is stupid and should live to serve only him. Even though the setting is the Victorian era Casaubon should have realized Dorothea does want to help him, and believed in him, until she realizes that he can’t read German to save his life and his research is for nothing. He doesn’t even try to learn German so he can be kept up to date on all the new discoveries made on religious matters. The reason being is most of the new papers on religious matters are in German

Lydgate is also called to Casaubon household to see if he can help Casaubon get well after his supposed stroke and was also recommended to them by Rosamond Vincy, Fred’s sister. Rosamond thinks Lydgate is rich and seems to be in love with him and think her future will be set in stone if she marries him. She doesn’t know Lydgate is poor. Even though Lydgate is poor he is a successful physician and seems to try and be a fair physician by not charging ridiculous rates for his assistance and giving actual good medical advice. He was also disinherited and seems to know how to live on his own without money. Rosamond’s family the Vincys, are not that well off either. Rosamond seems like she could be happy with Lydgate as well even though he might not help with her upward mobility in the social ladder. Lydgate is probably the only one who has things going his way so far in the book.