RELATIONS OF DOMINANCE AND EQUALITY IN D. H. LAWRENCE

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course startles Gerald who cannot see art with as much intimacy
as Birkin.
The carving for Gerald is like Minette: a thing
which is to be bought, used and dismissed.
That is why it is
obscene. It is Minette. Thus, the girl is obscene too, and to
be disposed of.
The way to do this is by giving money to her so
as to feel not so guilty for having used her as an 'obscene'
object: "It was true, he did not know whether [Minette] wanted
money or not.
But she might have been glad for ten pounds, and
he would have been very glad to give them to her" (p.74).
Gerald, a conventional chauvinist with women, could not, however,
'buy' Minette with his money. This fact haunts him for a long
time.
Pleasure for him seems to be something one can buy.
Anyway, Minette is really the kind of woman whose 'modernity'
allows her to accept payment for a 'bit of play', mainly if
"she were in difficulty".
Halliday's group remain a part of the story till the end
of the novel.
This implies that the old world will survive as
a seed of destruction in the whole environment of the universe,
no matter how many new worlds are built.
Within them certainly
there will be some dust of the old corrupt values of decadence.
c. The Brangwen Sisters
Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen belong to both worlds.
They
represent creation and destruction, tradition and negation of
tradition.
Lawrence himself provides a clear difference between
the sisters: "both had the remote, virgin look of modern girls,
sisters of Artemis rather than of Hebe... [Gudrun's] look of
confidence and diffidence contrasted with Ursula's sensitive
expectancy" (p.2).
The main difference between them is perhaps
that Ursula is the one who seems to knov; herself better than