RELATIONS OF DOMINANCE AND EQUALITY IN D. H. LAWRENCE

and thinks of them "as if they were extremely young and
incapable, to her they were little people, they were not her
equals" (p.85).
As a child she can be compared to a little elf,
savage and arrogant.
She has soon learned to distinguish whom
she is to like and whom she is to hate.
Earlier in life
Lawrence presents Anna as a very mischievous child with a certain
coldness in her treatment of other people.
She always feels
superior to them.
As for her mother and father her feelings are
mixed with a resentful worship for the former.
The latter "she
loved and patronized, but upon whom she depended" (p.98).
Her
two brothers, Tom and Fred, are creatures with whom she has a
strange connection: "Tom, dark-haired, small, volatile whom she
was intimately related to but whom she never mingled with, and
Fred, fair and responsive, whom she adored but did not consider
as real, separate being" (ibid).
The difference between her
connection with her brothers may be explained by the bringing up
of Tom and Fred.
Tom in the future becomes a corrupt person and
Anna is "intimately related to" him. This is not to say that
Anna also becomes corrupt but her later marriage to Will Brangwen
proves to have a certain taste for darkness.
Her adoration of
Fred and her feeling that he is not a "real, separate being" may
be explained, again by the future, in the idea that the fair boy
becomes much like his ancestors, an 'inward-facing' man attached
to the land.
And this seems to exemplify the unconscious
repulsion Anna feels towards ordinary people such as she thinks
her brother is. Anna is also an egocentric character. She
hardly respects other people.
The only exception in her general
coolness towards people can be seen in the figure of the Polish
Baron Skrebensky, her mother's friend, "whom she regarded as
having definite existence" (p.99).
Later on the son of the Baron