His nature was purely sensuous, and she strove to make him moral, religious. “What he felt just at the minute, that was all to him. In Walter Morel, one finds the predicament of a simple-minded man stuck in an incompatible marriage with a woman who possessed a greater sensibility than he did. As Aruna Sitesh confirms, “Sympathy for Walter is scattered all through the novel.” (494) However, critics have maintained that Lawrence was too severe upon himself-perhaps he was unable to grasp the import of the novel upon a reader who didn’t share his personal associations, or that his genius had unconsciously rendered an objectivity into his work which he failed to recognize himself. As a corollary, it might be implied that he regretted villainizing his father. Lawrence’s eventual realization about his maternal fixation.
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