ABSTRACT
A number of Lawrence’s protagonists are repelled by home and at times leave it. Paul Morel decides to leave home at the end of Sons and Lovers. Rupert Birkin in Women in Love tells Gerald: “each couple in its own little house, watching its own little interests, and stewing in its own little privacy—it’s the most repulsive thing on earth…. One should avoid this home instinct. It’s not an instinct, it’s a habit of cowardliness. One should never have a home” (352). Near the end of Kangaroo, Richard Lovatt Somers declares, “I won’t delude myself with the fallacy of home” (333).
