The Return of the Native | Summary
Book First: The Three Women
This novel opens with a sweeping view of the Egdon Heath countryside, providing descriptions of the landscape and some sense of its history. In the next chapter, an old man—later identified as Eustacia Vye’s grandfather—meets a red dye salesman, known as a reddleman. They briefly discuss Thomasin’s marriage, and the old man infers from the reddleman that the wedding has been postponed.
In town, Thomasin meets her aunt and explains that her wedding was called off because of a mixup with the license. They go to the tavern and receive...
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