RELATIONS OF DOMINANCE AND EQUALITY IN D. H. LAWRENCE

The underlined sentences are the key to this interpretation.
First of all Henry is a person who seems to decide his attitudes
through thinking - calculation is the best word.
calculate something you do not put feelings in it.
And when you
You simply
behave as coldly and detachedly as possible.
Secondly, he knows
March's vulnerability, for he thinks of her eyes which express
her undecisive self-knowledge.
He knows that what her
appearance shows is not what her inner self is.
And, finally,
he knows, that because of this he is older than she.
He has also
decided he is her master. Too simple. No feelings are involved
here.
It is as if March meant a kind of mathematical equation
that needs an exact solution.
And Henry decides he knows it.
It seems, however, that Henry only uses the farm as a
rationalization for going after March.
His attraction (not love)
for her seems, therefore, deeper than mere greed.
When we read
that "He scarcely admitted his intention even to himself" (p.104)
we feel that at the depths
Henry is not so evil as he appears
to be.
Since he hides his intentions from his conscious self it
may be possible that he does not really want to be aware of this
evil.
It is as if Lawrence meant that people develop evil only
within the subconscious.
The moment it comes to the surface of
the person's conscience s/he can be destroyed.
The passage which describes how Henry will hunt March does
not come really from his skillful mind.
It is from the author's
point of view that the hunting is described step by step.
There
is a clear interference from Lawrence at this point of the
narrative. It is not Henry speaking: there are no quotation
marks.
Lawrence uses, instead, the present tense which proves
his interference.
The author describes even the risks Henry
will run.
March at this point becomes a deer - a deer is a very