RELATIONS OF DOMINANCE AND EQUALITY IN D. H. LAWRENCE

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family the inarticulate sorrow of three generations facing the
corpse of Torn, the husband, the father and the grandfather.
Tom, the husband, is viewed by Lydia still as the stranger
she has met and married.
In her feelings there is the recognition
of their separate selves: "'I shared life with you, I belong in
my own way to eternity,' said Lydia Brangwen, her heart cold,
knowing her own singleness" (p.251).
As for the two sons and the daughter, each one is different.
Fred seems to feel in the death of his father the hand of fate.
His feelings seem more real than those of his brother Tom, who
expresses nothing, as if he were made of wax.
His face almost
resembles that of a vampire, as seen through Ursula's eyes:
Ursula... saw her Uncle Tom standing in his black
clothes, erect and fashionable, but his fists
lifted, and his face distorted, his lips curled
back from his teeth in a horrible grin... his face
never changing from its almost bestial look of
torture, the teeth all showing, the nose wrinkled
up, the eyes unseeing, fixed (p.252).
Anna does not care very much.
Her feelings since her new meeting
with Will are almost strictly related to lust.
Soon after the
funeral she goes back to her world of sex.
Will and Anna seem
not to care about the death for their maddening passion overcomes
any other kind of feeling.
Ursula Brangwen carries with her features of the two
previous generations.
From the first she has inherited the
strong qualities of the Brangwen women;, from the second she has
acquired the deficiencies of the frustrated 'daylight' marriage
of her parents.
She neither belongs to the Marsh farm nor to
the limits of her parents' cottage in Cossethay.
She carries
within her what her relatives have lost throughout the years that
separate her from the first generations — the wish to discover