Character Transformations In Dh Lawrence's "The Blind Man" And "The Ho
In DH Lawrence's stories "The Blind Man" and "The Horse Dealer's Daughter," the reader watches as characters move from having something missing in their lives, to being truly whole.
Lawrence uses images of darkness to illustrate the emotions of his characters. In "The Blind Man," Isabel goes to look for Maurice and when she steps into the stable where he is, "The darkness seemed to be in a strange swirl of violent life" (Lawrence, 132). The darkness that swirled around Isabel is the darkness in which Maurice lives. The "Horse Dealer's Daughter," is also consumed in darkness, as seen in the description of the dwindling town. The description reads like a disaster report on the five o'clock news: "across a shallow dip in the country, the small town was clustered like a smoldering ash, a tower, a spire, a heap of low, raw, extinct houses" (Lawrence, 147). To live in a town such as this, a person would become part of the "smoldering ash," as Mabel had. When Mabel was with her......
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