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A miner and flautist slips out of his Christmas Eve home and walks away from wife and children for good.
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アーロンの杖の概要
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- 109,400語
- ライブラリ内の難易度
- 標準 longer sentences, everyday words
- 初版刊行年
- 1922by D・H・ロレンス
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アーロンの杖 in short
Aaron's Rod follows a man who steps out of a good marriage on Christmas Eve and keeps stepping out of every arrangement that would hold him. He moves from the pit village to London, then to Italy, meeting people who each offer a way to live. He keeps his distance from all of them while wondering whether distance is freedom or just fear.
What アーロンの杖 is about
It is Christmas Eve in a Derbyshire mining village, and Aaron Sisson is setting up a tree for his two little girls. Their glass blue ball, once his own, smashes on the tiles. Hours later he walks out of his house and does not truly come back. What drives a decent man to leave his family without a reason he can name?
Aaron's Rod was written by D. H. Lawrence and published in 1922. It follows Aaron, a union man and gifted flute player, from the pits to the orchestra at Covent Garden and then south into Italy. The title comes from the rod of Aaron in the Bible that burst into flower, and here the rod is a flute. You get comic dinners, riots and sickbeds, and an argument about what it means to belong to yourself.
対象読者. Readers who enjoy novels about people leaving their lives behind, sharp talk at dinner tables, postwar Europe and flute music will love this book. It also suits those drawn to marriage and independence.
The story in 10 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
Christmas Eve cracks an ordinary home
The book opens on Christmas Eve, soon after the war. Aaron Sisson comes home late from a union meeting. He is thirty-two, fair haired and pleasant, and he built his house himself twelve years ago.
His daughters Millicent and Marjory beg him to set up a tree. His wife Lottie calls out orders from a bright, clean kitchen. Everything is warm and right, and yet Aaron looks at it as if from far away. Then Millicent pulls out the blue ball that once belonged to her father, tosses it too wildly, and it bursts on the tiles.
Aaron throws one bright shard into the fire and thinks that this is the end of it. Later he plays a carol on his flute and feels the lovely sound make him angrier. Lottie tells him to fetch candles and not to be selfish. He goes out into the dark.
A perfect home can still feel like a cage.
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A pub argument and a stranger in the garden
Aaron does not go straight home with the candles.
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He leaves his family and joins the orchestra
A few days after Christmas, Aaron sits unseen in the shed at the bottom of his own garden on a rainy evening.
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Lilly nurses a sick man and takes a punch
Lilly lives poor in a Hampshire cottage with his wife Tanny.
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A quarrel over war, friendship and the flute
As Aaron recovers, the two men talk by the fire.
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A failed homecoming and a grand house in Italy
After the opera season Aaron drifts in London, flattered and irritated by his patrons.
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Florence, a marchesa and a song
In Florence Aaron takes a top floor room at the Pension Nardini with a view of the Arno.
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Give yourself, but never give yourself away
The core idea of the book comes in long passages where the narrator thinks alongside Aaron.
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Lilly's creed of love, power and submission
Lilly serves as the book's loudest voice.
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A novel told in scenes, symbols and asides
The book mixes comedy, close scenes and open comment.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Aaron Sisson A miner's union secretary and gifted flute player who leaves his wife and children and wanders to London and Italy, wanting to belong only to himself.
- Lottie Sisson Aaron's wife of twelve years, proud and fierce, who demands that he admit his fault and give himself to her fully.
- Rawdon Lilly A small, quick, poor writer who preaches that each person must possess his own soul and who both draws Aaron and drives him off.
- Tanny Lilly's strong, fair wife, half Norwegian, who resists her husband's authority and wants children and warmth.
- Jim Bricknell A tall, tipsy former officer, son of a coal owner, who craves love and a revolution and cannot hold on to either.
- Josephine Ford A dark, sharp eyed artist who wants a bloody revolution and then wants Aaron, and who cries without knowing why.
- The Marchesa del Torre An American born woman in Florence, heavy eyed and sad, who cannot bear chords and finds her voice when Aaron plays.
- Argyle A heavy, drunken, witty Englishman in Florence who lives under a roof the porter calls Paradise and seeks a friend till death.
How it ends (spoiler)
Aaron's flute is smashed when a bomb explodes in a Florentine cafe, and Lilly tells him to throw the pieces in the river. Without his rod, Aaron turns toward Lilly. After Lilly's long speech about love and power, Aaron asks whom he should submit to. Lilly answers that his own deep soul will tell him, and the novel closes on that answer.
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『アーロンの杖』についての質問
What is Aaron's Rod about?
It follows Aaron Sisson, a Derbyshire miners' union man and flute player, who leaves his wife and three daughters on Christmas Eve. He travels to London and then to Italy, meeting people who test his wish to belong only to himself.
What does the title Aaron's Rod mean?
In the Bible, the rod of Moses's brother Aaron sprouted and flowered. In the novel, Lilly jokes that Aaron's flute is his rod, a small thing that may bloom, and its fate follows the story to the last chapters.
Who is Rawdon Lilly in the book?
Lilly is a small, dark, quick writer who is poor and married to Tanny. He nurses Aaron through influenza and gives him an address in Italy. He is the voice of the book's ideas about self, love and power.
When was Aaron's Rod written and is it based on real life?
D. H. Lawrence published it in 1922, after the First World War. It is a novel, but it draws on postwar England and Italy, and some critics see real acquaintances behind several characters.
What is the main message of Aaron's Rod?
The novel asks whether a person can love without giving himself away. Through Aaron and Lilly it argues that each soul must develop from within, though it leaves open whether Aaron's solitude is freedom or flight.
この版を引用します
Lawrence, D. H. Aaron's Rod. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/aarons-rod.
Lawrence, D. H. (2026). Aaron's rod. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/aarons-rod (Original work published 1922)
Lawrence, D. H. Aaron's Rod. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/aarons-rod.
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author = {Lawrence, D. H.},
title = {Aaron's Rod},
publisher = {Library of Alexandria},
year = {2026},
url = {https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/aarons-rod},
note = {First published 1922}
}
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