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Sons and Lovers
by D.H. Lawrence, Geoff Dyer
"Their intimacy was so abstract, he did not know he wanted to crush her onto his breast to ease the ache there. He was afraid of her. The fact that he might want her as a man wants a woman had in him been suppressed into shame."
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I found this to be a deeply moving story of how some children can become subsumed by their parents needs and fail to live their own lives. The lack of understanding and empathy between the Morel parents created a void that Mrs Morel filled with the love for, and from, her children. At first, she is a sympathetic character. As her children age she becomes the villain. William escaped her pull only in death. Paul was unable to move on from the Oedipal dynamic even after her death and made the choice to continue to live if only to carry her on. In Paul’s two romantic relationships he disassociated when physically intimate, almost as if keeping himself apart for his mother. It was hard to see his life break down around him and witness him never escape her orbit. Lawrence did a masterful job with pacing, settings, and capturing the humanity of such a tortured dynamic.
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I found this to be a deeply moving story of how some children can become subsumed by their parents needs and fail to live their own lives. The lack of understanding and empathy between the Morel parents created a void that Mrs Morel filled with the love for, and from, her children. At first, she is a sympathetic character. As her children age she becomes the villain. William escaped her pull only in death. Paul was unable to move on from the Oedipal dynamic even after her death and made the choice to continue to live if only to carry her on. In Paul’s two romantic relationships he disassociated when physically intimate, almost as if keeping himself apart for his mother. It was hard to see his life break down around him and witness him never escape her orbit. Lawrence did a masterful job with pacing, settings, and capturing the humanity of such a tortured dynamic.