The Rainbow (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- First Published: 1915
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: Late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
- Setting: England
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Freedom, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Marriage, Alienation, Individuality, England or English people, Farms, farmers, or farming, Lace or lace making
- Locales: Midlands, England
Characters Discussed
Tom Brangwen, a substantial English farmer. He is a lonely man leading a bachelor’s life, driven by his desires to sordid meetings with passing women and to frequent bouts with the brandy bottle, until his marriage to Lydia Lensky, a Polish widow whom he woos in an abrupt but successful courtship that rises above his own usual uncommunicativeness and a language barrier. Tom loves his wife, and he loves Anna, her small daughter. As the years pass, Tom becomes a kind of rural patriarch, watching his two sons, Tom and Fred, and Anna, his stepdaughter, grow...
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