RELATIONS OF DOMINANCE AND EQUALITY IN D. H. LAWRENCE

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that she wants a balanced relationship with the man she loves.
She does not want to live through him as he does.
The end of
the story is the description of this internal conflict between
the couple.
And here, Lawrence fully controls the narrative
since the conflict is described in the author's voice.
He does
not let the characters speak freely.
The moment of highest
conflict for Lawrence in ending his story occurs when Henry has
already killed Banford and he has March, as narrated by the
author, with him forever.
However, Lawrence seems not to be
satisfied with the victory of his male character over March,
otherwise he would not continue the story as follows:
But if [Henry] had won [March], he had not yet
got her. They were married by Christmas as he had
planned, and he got again ten days leave. They
went to Cornwall, to his own village on the sea.
He realized that it was awful for her to be on the
farm any more (p.153).
And now the internal conflict of the characters is described by
the author.
He describes the sense of failure in both March and
Henry:
But though she belonged to him, though she lived
in his shadow, as if she could not be away from him,
she was not happy. She did not want to leave him:
and yet she did not feel free with him. Everything
round her seemed to watch her, seemed to press on
her. He had won her, he had her with him, she was
his wife. And she — she belonged to him, she knew
it. But she was not glad. And he was still
foiled. He realized that though he was married to
her and possessed her in every possible way,
apparently, and though she wanted him to possess
her, she wanted it, she wanted nothing else, now
still he did not succeed (ibid).
March is not happy, there is still something missing.
Her new
life does not seem to fulfil her for "she felt she ought to do
something to strain herself in some':- direction. .. If she
was in love, she ought to exert herself in some way, loving"
(p.154).
But this right of exerting herself seems forbidden