Sun (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- First Published: 1926
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The 1920's, or possibly earlier
- Setting: Sicily
- Principal Characters: Juliet, Maurice, Johnny, Marinina, A Sicilian peasant
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Marriage, Alienation, Italy or Italians, Sun
- Locales: Sicily, Italy
The Story
Divided into five parts, D. H. Lawrence's story of initiation into rites of the healing, vital process of connection with the universe begins with the doctor's command: “Take her away, into the sun.” Juliet, a middle-class young matron, leaves behind her tepid-souled husband Maurice as she travels by ocean passage with her son, a nurse, and her mother to the south, to Sicily. There, in a landscape known to ancient Greek colonists of the Italian isle, she strips off her clothes—symbolic of her former prudish conventions—to be naked in the sun. In part 1, by the...
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