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Eliot uses a variety of literary styles, changing up to match each main character. The initial Gwendolyn sections are light and elegant. The Deronda sections are slower and weightier - as befitting a serious thinker who tends to brood. The Mordecai sections are ponderous, learned, and often (IMHO) abstruse.
There is also a significant shift in style between the early Gwendolyn/Grandcourt chapters and the later ones, as characters and relationships alter profoundly - especially in the dialogue.
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