![]() That they achieve more is a source of both pride and derision for Walter Morel. He’s so tied to his mining lot in life it doesn’t occur to him his gifted sons could aspire to more. His “smallness” is a function of where he is and who he is expected to be rather than who he could be. ![]() Unlike some of Lawrence’s other works, such as Women in Love, in which Lawrence explores lofty themes in a philosophical and grim tone, Sons and Lovers is as down to earth as Paul’s rough, violent, yet congenial father Walter.ĭespite his many apparent and iterated flaws, Walter Morel is shown as a whole person with a gentle, content, industrious side - when he’s sober. His older brother died young, DeMott notes. Like the protagonist Paul Morel, Lawrence was born to a coal miner and a woman who has married beneath her class. Lawrence’s novels according to the introduction by Benjamin DeMott, some critics have found it too flatly so. Sons and Lovers is said to be the most autobiographical of D. ![]()
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