玛丽·高思是《米德尔马契》中的一个次要角色,但无论是从家庭背景、早年经历、择偶标准还是从擅长的职业来看,她和乔治.艾略特有很多相似的地方。她虽貌不惊人,但她务实、正直、机智犀利、求知欲强,比其他任何人都有洞察力,她对别人的看法,在心理上更接近作者本人,可以说她是作者隐形的自我。 Mary Garth is a secondary role in Middlemarch, but she has many similarities with George Eliot in terms of her family background, her early years of life, her mate selection criteria, and her professionalism. Although she is not astonishing, she is pragmatic, upright, witty and intellectual, more insightful than anyone else, and her perception of others is psychologically closer to the author himself, arguably her invisible self .