: The tension between marrying for love versus marrying for money and status.
: The social stigma and exclusion Mary faces due to her "undisclosed parentage". Doctor Thorne
"Its green pastures, its waving wheat, its deep and shady and—let us add—dirty lanes, its paths and stiles, its tawny-coloured, well-built rural churches... has made it to its own inhabitants a favoured land of Goshen." Where to Watch or Listen Doctor Thorne (TV Mini Series 2016) : The tension between marrying for love versus
Trollope's writing is known for its detailed descriptions of English rural life. From the opening of the novel: its waving wheat