RELATIONS OF DOMINANCE AND EQUALITY IN D. H. LAWRENCE

to strengthen the relation.
This means mind interaction and that
does not exist in Gypsy because.
"She could understand nothing
but love making and chatter" (p.163).
William senses the
difference and complains to his mother in a painful way: "'That's
it mother,' he replied gratefully.
But his brow was gloomy.
'You know, she's not like you,mother.
can't think'" (p.148 - My underlining).
She's not serious, and she
Defining his fiancee
like that, William anticipates the failure of his relation with
Gypsy.
It is a total reproduction of his parents' frustrated
marriage.
However, William's affair with the girl does not go far.
They do not marry.
In a sense the relationship reaches its peak
with William's decline.
What seems rather awkward is to notice
that the boy has gone to London to become better positioned in
the social scale, like his mother so much wanted, but what really
happens is.different.
He indeed climbs the stairs of high society
but there he meets Gypsy who leads him to fall and also leads him
to death.
Apart from Gypsy's 'help', there is his mother's
yearnings for him which certainly have a deep influence in his
fall and subsequent death.
William -due to his despair in not overcoming
the shortcomings of a frustrated and unresolved relationship gets
sick and finally dies.
Another idea is that in trying to become
independent from his mother, he gets far beyond the limits
permitted by the nylon string Mrs Morel has tied on his neck
(symbolically represented by his collars which caused erysipelas
on his neck).
As a consequence, he has a death which might be
associated with a kind of hanging.
His Gypsy soon forgets him
(as he predicted some time before dying).
His mother becomes for
a period out of her senses till she transfers her possessive love
to her other son, Paul.