Lawrence's "Sons And Lovers": Relationships
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There can be no argument that D. H. Lawrence's Son's and Lover's is
a study of human relationships. Gertrude Morel, because of her turbulent
and odd relationship with her husband, ends up developing deep emotional
relations with her two eldest son's. The second eldest in particular, Paul,
is the ....
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.... to need her, if she could take care of him, "if
he could depend on her, if she could, as it were, have him in her arms, how
she would love him."(137) However, this is never allowed to happen. Paul's
mother Gertrude already occupies this space in his life. Thus the
relationship between the two is a struggle for an identity. The
relationship is a struggle between Paul and his mother and Paul and Miriam.
The main conflicts between Paul and Miriam are between physical-
spiritual differences and h ....
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