RELATIONS OF DOMINANCE AND EQUALITY IN D. H. LAWRENCE

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to March.
With Henry she will have to assimilate the female
part of herself which in the letter she denies.
Of course
Banford is physiologically the same, another woman, while Henry
is 'sexually' other.
Despite March's reasons, Henry does not give up.
He knows
that Banford is responsible for March's refusal of him:
In his mind was one thing - Banford. He took no
heed of all March's outpouring: none. One thorn
rankled, stuck in his mind. Banford. In his mind,
in his soul, in his whole being one thorn
rankling to insanity. And he would have to get
it out. He would have to get the thorn of Banford
out of his life, if he died for it (p.144 - My
underlining).
Having decided to make Banford vanish from his life Henry asks
for a leave of absence to solve the matter.
He then rides madly
on a bicycle to get to Bailey Farm.
At the farm March is busy trying to cut a dead tree.
This
is the third main idea of this analysis, the one which I intend
to take as my final point.
Summarizing the first two: one is
related to March's manly appearance in which she disguised her
divided self.
tendencies'
The other idea refers to March's 'unsatisfied
which culminates in her trance when she discovered
her female side through the fox and then through Henry.
These
first ideas are solved, one may say, by the time March finally
blossoms in the scene of the dress she wears and which revedls
her womanly forms - external and internal.
The last idea, which
refers to the cutting of the dead tree, leads to the total
recognition in March of her hidden femininity and the destruction
of her masculine side.
The cutting of this tree implies several
things which deserve some consideration.
Firstly, the tree
relates to March's masculinity.
It has, as the tree, died in
the summer, just before the fox's coming.
March's masculinity