RELATIONS OF DOMINANCE AND EQUALITY IN D. H. LAWRENCE

succeed in life. This is an unconscious escape from
his mother and, ironically, he dies because he could not find a
girl who would replace Gertrude.
Life in London seems really good to William: he earns good
wages, sends money to his mother and is happy.
At Christmas he
is back to visit his family.
He, as a good son, "had brought
them endless presents.
Every penny he has spent on them..."
(p.104).
In the Morels' home "Everybody was mad with happiness.
Home was home, and they loved it with a passion of love, whatever
the suffering had been'.' (p. 105).
But William goes back to London.
Happiness is gone.
Under these conditions, Mrs Morel's marriage does not exist
anymore in the sense that there is no interaction between wife
and husband.
But one may say that William in London reproduces,
or rather continues, his parents' marriage.
In other words,
William falls in love a girl whose main 'virtue' lies in her
sensuous appeal (like mother, like son]).
If William belongs to
both Walter and Gertrude, it is certain that he has inherited
from them the 'magic* blind of sensuality, i.e., he has fallen
in love due to the fact that Gypsy's physical appeal arrested
him (as his mother was fascinated by Walter's attractive figure,
so is he by Gypsy's lady-like appearance and behavior).
William
is literally blind to her inner side.
He only sees the seductive
girl 'Gyp' is, and that is the impression shown by the photograph
of her he sends to the family.
The photograph depicts the girl's
sensuality, as Mrs Morel points out in a letter to her son:
'the photograph of Louie is very striking, and I
can see she must be attractive. But do you
think, my boy, it was very good taste of a girl
to give her young man that photo to send to his
mother — the.first? Certainly the shoulders
are beautiful, as you say. But I hardly expected