![]() ![]() The entire experience had been so painful that in order to work out his catharsis, Lawrence had to relive it imaginatively and express it in artistic terms. They hung on to each other for nearly ten years, but finally broke off. But the dark shadow of his Oedipal relationship with his mother did not let him attain emotional fulfillment through Jessie. At the age of sixteen, he had met Jessie Chambers. Lawrence grew into a self-conscious neurotic. Gradually, there grew an unhealthy inter-dependence between Lawrence and his mother, that rendered him unfit to establish a healthy emotional relationship with other women. She, too, frustrated in her marriage, leaned heavily on her children, in particular on Lawrence, for emotional fulfillment and for the realization of her ambitions. Repelled by the coarse brutality of his father, Lawrence developed a deep attachment with his mother. ![]() The home atmosphere was embittered by their endless bickerings. His parents never enjoyed conjugal felicity. ![]() Being highly sensitive, he reacted sharply, suffered intensely. Lawrence was a tortured soul for the full forty-five years of his life. Sons and Lovers is an autobiographical novel, as autobiographical as Arnold Bennet’s Clayhanger and the first half of Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield. ![]()
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