RELATIONS OF DOMINANCE AND EQUALITY IN D. H. LAWRENCE

why, when he goes to meet Anna in the twilight, he cannot face
her.
She represents temptation and the way to perdition. This
fact also reminds us of Paul Morel and Miriam when they make
love. Paul cannot look into Miriam's eyes. In this case Paul
feels guilty because he is only using Miriam's body to fulfil
his sensual desires.
Here is an important moment in Paul and
Miriam's affair in which he cannot face her:
Then she raised her head and looked into his
eyes with her full gaze of love. The blaze
struggled, seemed to get away from her, and then
was quenched. He turned his head quickly aside.
It was a moment of anguish (p.345).
As for Will, he cannot face Anna because he, like Paul, feels
guilty.
His guilt is associated with his religious mind and, as
he wants Anna as a female, he is committing a sin.
The way he
has found to hide his desire is by not looking into Anna's eyes.
Paul's guilt seems perhaps worse than Will's due to the fact that
Paul has already had sex with Miriam and Will has not yet gone
so far with Anna.
This moment occurs previous to their first real love scene
under the moonlight when they are gathering sheaves in the
fields.
The whole scene of the sheaves appears to be a
preparation for the love scene.
The description of Will and
Anna coming and going, picking up the sheaves is like the rhythm
of sexual intercourse.
However, the couple does not meet, they
are separate:
And always, she was gone before he came. As he
came, she drew away, as he drew away, she came.
Were they never to meet? Gradually a low, deepsounding
will in him vibrated in her, tried to set
her in accord, tried to bring her gradually to him,
to a meeting, till they should be together, till
they should meet as the sheaves that swished
together (p.123).
They finally meet.
The sensation is that despite the bright