Lady Chatterley's Lover, Chapter 6: riassunto

Cosa succede

1. Tommy Dukes separates friendship from sexual desire, leaving Connie lonely and dissatisfied with relations between men and women.
2. Connie finds Mellors with his crying daughter after he shoots a cat, and takes the child to her grandmother.
3. She turns toward literary earnings and social success, but privately considers having a child with a carefully chosen man.
4. Carrying Clifford’s message, Connie unexpectedly sees Mellors washing and feels a powerful bodily response to his solitary presence.
5. She returns to deliver the message and discovers that Mellors lives alone while his mother and daughter live elsewhere.
6. Connie questions Clifford about Mellors and interprets his dismissiveness as resistance to anyone rising beyond his social class.

In questo chapter

Cosa notare

The sight of Mellors produces a bodily response that challenges Connie’s attempt to dismiss sex as insignificant.

Verifica rapida