Sons And Lovers Notes
Gertrude Morel - The first protagonist of the novel. She becomes unhappy with her husband Walter and devotes herself to her children.
Paul Morel - Paul Morel takes over from his mother as the protagonist in the second half of the book. After his brother William's death, Paul becomes his mother's favorite and struggles throughout the novel to balance his love for her with his relationships with other women.
Walter Morel - Gertrude's husband, a coal miner.
William Morel - Their first son, who is Mrs. Morel's favorite until he falls ill and dies.
Annie Morel - Paul's older sister. When their mother lies dying toward the end of the novel, she and Paul decide to give her an ...
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mother.
Thomas Jordan - The owner of the factory where Paul works. Paul dislikes him from their first interview because he is rude and makes Paul look foolish. He later fires Baxter Dawes because he knocks him down a flight of stairs.
Louisa Lily Denys Western - A girl William sees in London, and to whom he becomes engaged. The rest of the family is less than impressed with her when he brings her home, and William shortly becomes sick of her as well.
Mr. and Mrs. Leivers, Agatha, Edgar, Geoffrey, Maurice - The family who live at Willey Farm.
Fanny - A hunchback who works in the finishing-off room at the factory, who likes to have Paul come visit her to sing or talk. She organizes the other girls to get Paul a birthday present.
John Field - A man with whom Gertrude is friendly when she is nineteen. He gives her a Bible, which she keeps for the rest of her life. From John she learns that "being a man isn't everything."
Jerry Purdy - Walter Morel's bosom ...
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and ends as the controlling force in Paul's life.
When Paul is born his has already turned away from physical responsiveness to her husband, and indeed to everything, except for her love of flowers and the flowers of her womb, her children. The movement of the mother away from normal relationships lies heavily on Paul, and caught, as it is in the life cycle of blooming and dying vegetation, seems doomed toward death. The result for Paul seems to be the inability to respond to the women in his life both sexually and unself-consciously.
With Miriam, his first love, Paul's primary contact is spiritual and cerebral, and the once mutual attraction crumbles into bitterness, hurt and ...
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