Question

why did Philip not get up to shake hands with tom​

Answer 1

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Explanation:

When Tom Tulliver returns to boarding school on a cold, wet day in January, he is introduced by the schoolmaster, Mr. Stelling, to a new classmate, Philip Wakem, who, like Tom, is from the town of St. Ogg. Despite being from the same town, the two boys do not shake hands. George Eliot sets up the scene as follows:

Tom felt in an uncomfortable flutter as he took off his woollen comforter and other wrappings. He had seen Philip Wakem at St Ogg’s, but had always turned his eyes away from him as quickly as possible. He would have disliked having a deformed boy for his companion, even if Philip had not been the son of a bad man. And Tom did not see how a bad man’s son could be very good. His own father was a good man, and he would readily have fought any one who said the contrary. He was in a state of mingled embarrassment and defiance as he followed Mr Stelling to the study.

For his part, Tom feels uncomfortable around Philip because the latter has a physical disability and also because he disapproves of Philip's father, the formidable Mr. Wakem. 

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