Last semester was a tough one for me – taking required linguistics and lit. theory classes at the same time. Both classes were interesting and the profs were fantastic, but they still felt a bit like foreign languages to me, like I was just barely keeping my head above water all semester. I [...]
May 6, 2008
Sons and Lovers
I keep thinking of the New Women writers of the late nineteenth century while reading Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers. Like many of the New Women characters Mrs. Morel is frustrated with her marriage. Even before Morel starts drinking heavily and becomes abusive to his wife, during the supposed “perfectly happy” time of the marriage (the [...]
