Chip’s Comments (group member since Feb 02, 2008)

Chip’s comments from the D.H. Lawrence group.

OK, so I'm going to finally start some discussion here, in the hopes that someone takes the bait: my current favorite is a scene that seems to be about Ursula's first sexual experience in The Rainbow. I'm recounting from memory, so feel free to challenge me, but there was a scene in a barn, or in the rain, where she and her first lover get into something that sure sounds like 'sexual congress', though it might just be heavy petting. I will look up the passage and we can go over it.

Mostly I just keep coming back to Lawrence's depiction of the country and the details of Nature and how it affects our protagonists. I don't think The Rainbow is his best book (of my four reads that would still have to be Women in Love) but I do love how it follows several generations of family, ending in the climax of the rainbow.