In Book 7, we find Gwendolyn and Grandcourt sailing through the Mediterranean and ending up in Genoa. Gwendolyn joins Grandcourt for a quick sail, even though she doesn’t want to go sailing (Eliot, pg. 572). This trip leads to Grandcourt’s untimely death and a retrospect of Gwendolyn’s feelings about her life currently.  

Frankfurt, Germany, had one of the most prominent Jewish communities called Juden-Gasse (Jews Lane) in the 19th century. Daniel decides to visit in hopes of learning more about the history and religion of Judaism. In chapter 32, Daniel wanders around the Jewish ghetto and attends his first synagogue service, where he encounters a friend of his grandfather. Daniel describes the area saying, “he remembered well enough its picturesque old houses; what his eyes chiefly dwelt on now were the human types there ..