RELATIONS OF DOMINANCE AND EQUALITY IN D. H. LAWRENCE

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In the dances William occasionally meets some girls and,
being a handsome young man, he awakens in them some interest for
him.
These girls sometimes go to his house looking for him.
Through a dialogue between William's mother and a young girl he
met at a dance, it is easy to infer that Mrs Morel's sons will
have terrible and troublesome emotional relationships.
She is
entirely jealous of her son (now it is William and then Paul).
She says: "'I don't approve of girls my son meets at dances...'"
(p.7 0) and also as William says "'I'm sure she was a nice girl',"
the mother replies" 'And I'm sure she wasn't'" (p.71).
She is as
jealous as a very possessive girlfriend.
At the age of twenty William gets a job in London and
leaves the family. Going to the big city is part of the mission
William is set to perform by his loving mother.
There he will
earn money and 'trophies' for her and, thus, give her a vicarious
sense of wider horizons and the 'upper' world.
In the beginning,
Mrs Morel, instead of being happy, becomes disillusioned.
The
point is that William in London is far away from her dominance.
Furthermore, she will not have her beloved son near her to
dedicate all her possessive love.
Perhaps there is also the fear
of him becoming independent due to the fact that being away from
her, he can decide his life without having to ask his mother
whether he can or cannot do this or that thing. William cannot
see that his mother "might be more hurt at his going away than
glad of his success.
Indeed, as the days went near for his
departure, her heart began to close and grow dreary with
despair..." (p.72).
William goes to London without carrying on his shoulders
the burden of the sick possessive love of his mother.
He loves
her, knows her love for him, but life goes on and he wants to