The Pit Mines
Workin' in the coal mine, goin' down, down, down… As you might have guessed, the always-unpleasant pit mines in Sons and Lovers seem to symbolize the world of hard labor. Lawrence drops a lot of...
Painting
Apart from hanging out with his coterie of women (including his mother, Mrs. Morel), Paul's biggest amour is painting. And he's not half bad at it either. Every time the book mentions painting, Pau...
Nature
So there you are, just chilling, reading Sons and Lovers at an easy pace, loving all of Lawrence's straightforward sentences. Then: boom. The language explodes into epic floweriness as you're confr...
William's Suit
Still skeptical that Mrs. Morel thinks of Paul as a replacement for her dead son, William? Well, it's pretty hard to stay skeptical after Mrs. Morel tells Paul to run upstairs and put on his dead b...
Romantic Imagery
Throughout this book, Lawrence talks about Paul's relationships with Clara and Miriam in romantic terms, and there's nothing weird about that. What is weird, though, is that Lawrence uses many of t...