RELATIONS OF DOMINANCE AND EQUALITY IN D. H. LAWRENCE

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light of the moon covering Anna's face, she represents to Will a
certain darkness which he cannot yet grasp.
Will feels a certain
triumph for he kisses Anna, but in fact the one who dominates the
whole scene is the woman.
She does not let him say anything. She
surrounds him with her sensual whispers of "my love' till
they kissed on the mouth, in rapture and surprise,
long, real kisses. The kiss lasted, there among
the moonlight. He kissed her again, and she kissed
him. And again they were kissing together. Till
something happened to him, he was strange. He
wanted her... he wanted to tell her so. But the
shock was too great to him... he did not know
what to do... But he knew he wanted her. Something
fixed in him for ever. He was hers... (pp.124-5).
The only possible solution for Will's conflict is to ask her to
marry him.
It seems quite clear that the two generations view marriage
as the central solution to all problems.
The conflicts they
have seem to be solved the moment that the magic word 'marriage'
comes to their minds.
Will is not different from his predecessors.
As he could explain neither to Anna (nor himself) the reason for
his inner conflict, he solved it by proposing marriage to her.
After Will proposes marriage to Anna, Lawrence himself clearly
says that Will could not understand her passionate kiss and that
"he left it all now, to marriage.
That was the solution now,
fixed ahead" (p.125).
This fixed solution proves to be worthless
in Ursula's generation as we shall see later on.
Will and Anna marry.
At the wedding what seems most
important is Tom's speech about the sanctity of marriage.
His
speech represent his own life with Lydia: the meeting of two
angels, as he calls it.
It is the communion of two souls forming
one, in unity. This is his achievement with Lydia, but it cannot
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be taken as valid for Will and Anna. They are never like Tom's