In 'Middlemarch', the idealistic young doctor Tertius Lydgate sees his medical career compromised by:
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Correct answer: Mounting debt and an incompatible marriage to Rosamond Vincy
Lydgate hopes to reform medical science, but his 'spots of commonness' and Rosamond's materialistic demands lead to his professional stagnation. His arc demonstrates Eliot's theme of the crushing weight of social and financial circumstance.
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