One evening, the Crich family hosts their annual public party by the lake, and the Brangwen sisters attend. He escapes and considers it the end of their relationship.īirkin decides to move into a mill house on Willey Water Lake, and Ursula begins visiting him there. During a weekend gathering at Hermione’s estate, Breadalby, she becomes enraged and smashes a paperweight against the back of Birkin’s head with the intention of killing him. This situation complicates Birkin’s growing fondness for Ursula, and Hermione and Ursula become enemies. Hermione wants to marry Birkin and have him dominate her completely. Rupert is haunted by his lingering attachment to Hermione Roddice, an aristocratic woman whom he loathes but finds difficult to abandon. Birkin and Gerald hate each other passionately at the beginning of the novel, but after a chance encounter on the way to London they begin to become friends. Birkin is a school inspector with extremely unconventional attitudes about life, and Gerald is the heir to the local mining operation that is the central industry of Beldover. The two later decide to drop by a local wedding, where they first see Gerald Crich and Rupert Birkin, the two men with whom they will develop affairs that drive the action of the novel. Gudrun has recently returned home from art school in London. The novel opens with the sisters Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen chatting about marriage one morning at their father’s house in Beldover.
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