ABSTRACT
D. H. Lawrence written always at his best, as in the finest parts of Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love, and many of his short stories, it could be argued that he is the greatest of twentieth-century novelists. The relationship between the mother and the father, Mr and Mrs Morel, is the focus of interest for the first third of the novel, and what is striking about it is the way in which Lawrence makes our sympathies ebb and flow between the two. The technical method which Lawrence employs in the first part of the book seems basically the traditional one of combining dramatic scenes with an authorial commentary. Lawrence is concerned with the most intimate feelings, those which it is hardest to put into words and for which no established categories or phraseologies exist, and he believes that these feelings cannot be separated from the practicalities, even the political and social principles of mundane life.
