RELATIONS OF DOMINANCE AND EQUALITY IN D. H. LAWRENCE

CONCLUSION
Usually people deal in their conclusions with the
convergent points of what they have been studying.
They
normally do not re-analyse passages previously examined.
Because
I think that Lawrence proposes 'theoretically' to work with a
particular subject while his practice in the novels fails to
match with his theory, I propose a different sort of conclusion.
It seems to me a valid methodology to examine the endings of his
stories so as to achieve the point of my conclusion.
The first important remark I would like to make relates to
Lawrence's awareness of what-he is as a writer. In an essay called
"Why the Novel Matters"'*’ he defines himself:
... being a novelist, I consider myself superior
to the saint, the scientist, the philosopher, and
the poet, who are all great masters of different
bits of man alive, but never get the whole hog
(Beal, p.105).
This 'superiority' refers to the author's idea that he, as a
All the essays by Lawrence cited here are - from the book
D.K. Lawrence: Selected Literary Criticism, edited by Anthony
Beal in 1973. See complete biblxographical reference in the
bibliography (pp. 385) of this dissertation.