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Tom Tulliver. Tom is Mr. Tulliver andMrs. Tulliver’s son and Maggie’s older brother. He does not share her intellectual abilities and bookish qualities, but he is skilled at practical tasks like building, fishing, and working on the Tulliver family property, Dorlcote Mill. His father sends him to study with Mr. Stelling, with the aim of giving him “a good eddication” that will give Tom a chance at succeeding in business. However, Tom is ill-suited for studies in Latin and geometry. Tom is highly moralistic and has a well-developed sense of right and wrong, which he imposes on those around him. He tends to treat Maggie harshly when she does something that he deems a violation of his moral code, which is often. Tom has a difficult and traumatic initiation into adulthood when Mr. Tulliver goes bankrupt and later dies, leaving Tom responsible for the family’s finances. Tom swears on the family Bible that he will take revenge against Mr. Wakem, the lawyer who spitefully ruined them. Tom becomes obsessed with making his fortune, paying the family debts, and buying back Dorlcote Mill, which he eventually does. However, his success comes at a high personal cost: he becomes exhausted, stubborn, and even harsher in his judgments of Maggie. He rejects Maggie after her failed elopement with Stephen Guest, telling her he renounces her as his sister. However, brother and sister are reconciled at the end of the novel, when Maggie rescues Tom from a disastrous flood and the pair die in an embrace.